"NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of our solar system," the statement reads ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar system, as detailed in a series of papers ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved ...

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...

After traveling two billion miles over more than two years, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, collected ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...