A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The ...

This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

Enceladus, a 310-mile-wide moon of Saturn, has an icy shell encasing a salty ocean with many of the same minerals as Bennu. In October, NASA launched a probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa ...

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

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, ...

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 ...