Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, delivered to Earth in 2023 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

Scientists suggest that the amino acids found on the asteroid Bennu did not require warm, liquid water to form, as previously assumed.

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu ...

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

The Asteroid Belt doesn’t look like asteroid fields in movies, filled with rocks constantly hitting each other. Space is big, ...

Jupiter continues shining brightly in the east in the evening among the stars of Gemini. To the right of Gemini is Orion with orange-red Betelgeuse and blue-white Rigel at diagonally ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft didn’t just collect rocks from asteroid Bennu — it brought back samples that are rewriting our ...

A rare carbonaceous meteorite discovered in the Western Sahara has captured the attention of scientists for containing grains ...