Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

Asteroid Bennu samples contain life-friendly sugars, a strange "space-gum," and ancient stardust ...

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

NASA’s Bennu samples have revealed an unexpected mix of sugars, sticky 'gum-like' material and ancient stardust. Scientists ...

New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues to how life developed in our neck of the cosmos, including the sugars ...

Samples retrieved from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in September 2023 have yielded a surprising treasure trove ...

Another study in Nature Astronomy, led by Scott Sandford at NASA’s Ames Research Center and Zack Gainsforth of UC Berkeley, ...

As per the official reports, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission first collected samples from asteroid Bennu in 2020.

Recent studies of asteroid Bennu samples, returned to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, have revealed surprising compounds that could inform our understanding of the early solar system and the ...

Is life out there? NASA finds essential sugars on ancient asteroid the size of the Empire State Building - ‘We’re looking at ...

Scientists led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University in Japan found sugars essential for biology on Earth in the Bennu ...

The intriguing findings bolster the theory that asteroids seeded the early Earth with life's chemical components - a process known as panspermia.