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

WASHINGTON – NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu ... the research team said they found evidence that Bennu was rich in salts and other ...

There’s certainly nothing living on the asteroid Bennu ... From the desert, the samples were transferred to NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston where they are stored and studied ...

So they’ve got beautiful bladed structures ... So we’ve got the ingredients, but again, no evidence of detecting actual life in the asteroid Bennu samples. DANTE LAURETTA: Yeah, and for me, that ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid ... in the Bennu samples they studied.

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the asteroid’s surface. NASA/Goddard ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...

Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid ... in the Bennu samples they studied.

Scientists have discovered the essential building blocks to life on a sample from a distant asteroid ... study received slices of the Bennu sample, which they examined under a scanning electron ...

29 (UPI) --Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that ... and convert amino acids into protein. They also found high amounts of ammonia in the samples, which can create ...