Asteroid Bennu, a dark rubble pile roughly the height of the Empire State Building, has turned out to be a chemical treasure ...

Bennu asteroid samples returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reveal life's building blocks, including sugars like ribose and ...

Asteroid Bennu's sample delivered a shock: ribose and glucose were found, confirming the widespread presence of life's fundamental building blocks in the early Solar System.

Meteorites are like a time machine and spacecraft all in one. Discover how our scientists use rare specimens in the meteorite ...

Bennu is believed to have originated from the shards of a much larger world. Curiously, asteroid Ryugu, sampled by the ...

The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...

The finding supports the theory that asteroids could have delivered the necessary components for life to begin on Earth and ...

A visit to an asteroid is revealing the origins of life in our solar system. In 2023, the OSIRIS-REx mission brough samples ...

How life began on Earth is one of the biggest remaining questions in science. Now, NASA has taken a major step towards ...

Researchers say this ancient “space gum,” once soft and flexible but now hardened, may have provided some of the chemical ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought back pristine pieces of the asteroid Bennu in 2023—and these tiny grains are turning out to ...

What is “gum”? Most people have probably never considered this question, and might answer something like a chewy material you ...