The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu and ...

Did the ingredients for life as we know it exist in the early solar system? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academ | Space ...

A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped ...

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

The universe might have far more amino acids lying around than we realized, which gives life itself far more chances to begin.

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

Penn State researchers think a key ingredient for life may have formed in deep freeze, not in a warm asteroid puddle. A space sample with a new twistScientists at Penn State; led by geoscientist ...

Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu are continuing to shed light on the origins of the solar system. Scientists have been studying the samples since NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft carried them back to ...

While the technology still needs significant work, a new analysis of meteorites points to valuable targets in the solar ...

NASA revealed that scientists discovered sugars that are “essential” to life and a “gum-like” substance on the space rock Bennu NASA/Goddard/University of ...