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

New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues ...

"I'm becoming much more optimistic that we may be able to find life beyond Earth, even in our own solar system." ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

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 ...

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

When NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission brought back its precious cargo from Asteroid Bennu, scientists expected incredible data. What ...

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

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

Sugars essential for biology have been discovered in a gum-like substance in fragments from the Bennu space-rock.

A critical nutrient used to produce the neurotransmitter serotonin may have turned up in samples collected from asteroid ...