The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

Bennu contains uracil ... Ceres, a 580-mile-wide dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, still has brine sloshing through its interior. Enceladus, a 310-mile-wide moon of Saturn, has an icy shell ...

By Carl Zimmer Our solar system contains planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets ... Nature on Wednesday that the asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of organic molecules, including ...

There are several planets, dwarf planets, asteroids ... the "basic building blocks" of life in the samples of the asteroid Bennu. The asteroid Bennu contains a lot of organic molecules, including ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

Based on the similarities between asteroid Bennu and the icy dwarf planets and moons of our outer solar system, these potential ingredients for life could be widespread.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could have formed on Earth.

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

The researchers think brine similar to that found on Bennu could also exist on other bodies in the solar system, such as the dwarf planet Ceres and Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. —NASA is locked out of ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate, and ammonia. Together, ...