NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission. It's a win for alien life.

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

Scanning electron microscope images of trona found in samples of the asteroid Bennu returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Trona is water-bearing sodium carbonate, also known commonly as soda ash.

“The fact that we find them [water-bearing silicates] in major abundance in asteroid Bennu suggests that at some point in its history, the asteroid itself had an active hydrothermal ...

“Ammonia and formaldehyde likely reacted together to form the amino acids and nucleobases in Bennu when ice melted and salty liquid water flowed through Bennu’s parent body about 4.5 billion years ago ...

suggesting liquid water once flowed on Bennu. A new study suggests Bennu may have formed beyond Saturn’s orbit, carrying materials from the coldest regions of the solar system. Berkeley Lab ...

The latest results suggest this parent body had an extensive underground network of lakes or even oceans, and that the water evaporated away, leaving behind the salty clues. Sixty labs around the ...

NASA says there are also high levels of other water-bearing minerals, such as olivine, magnetite, carbonates, and sulfites. The results of this first Bennu analysis, NASA says, show that the ...

and that the water evaporated away, leaving behind the salty clues. Sixty labs around the world are analyzing bits of Bennu as part of initial studies, said the University of Arizona’s Dante Lau ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

So, the hunt for water boiled down to a hunt for hydrogen ... the type of material we hope to get from the asteroids Bennu and Ryugu.” “Those of us who study meteorites are really at the ...