The rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu hold amino acids, ammonia and other molecules essential to life on Earth, NASA reported Wednesday. The findings suggest the conditions necessary ...

NASA had a big reveal party on Wednesday. The nation's first-ever asteroid samples, which were delivered last month to a desert in Utah, were shown off at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston ...

NASA says Bennu asteroid sample shows evidence of water, carbon 00:24. Rocks and soil collected from the asteroid Bennu and brought back to Earth last month by NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe are rich in ...

NASA's first asteroid sample is the most pristine sample of its kind. Now, back on Earth, the sample from asteroid Bennu has already delivered surprising findings about the early solar system and ...

The Bennu samples were retrieved by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2020. The robotic probe scraped 4.2 ounces of material from the asteroid and dropped them into Utah by parachute in a sealed ...

NASA said during a live stream Wednesday that Bennu asteroid samples collected by the OSIRIS-Rex mission contain water, carbon and organic molecules - the building blocks of life.

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar system, ...

NASA's first asteroid sample is the most pristine sample of its kind. Now, back on Earth, the sample from asteroid Bennu has already delivered surprising findings about the early solar system and ...

NASA scientist Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in 2023. Photo by James Tralie/NASA.

NASA recently sent an expedition to the asteroid Bennu with the expectation that it may hit Earth in 159 years By Matthew Rozsa Published October 1, 2023 3:00PM (EDT) ...

It seems like only yesterday we were celebrating the arrival of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe at the space rock known as Bennu. Bennu is a … ...