The first grains of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu are turning out to be far richer than many scientists dared hope, ...

NASA has confirmed that dust from the ancient asteroid Bennu contains tryptophan, an amino acid tied both to human mood and ...

The nitrogen in the gum was found to be in nitrogen heterocycles, which are the building blocks of nucleobases in DNA and RNA ...

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

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

A new analysis of samples returned from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has revealed a rich collection of organic molecules, ...

Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

A saucer-shaped capsule carrying asteroid fragments that may hold clues about the birth of the solar system slammed into Earth's atmosphere Sunday and descended to an on-target parachute-assisted ...

For the first time, tryptophan, which is an essential amino acid, has been identified in extraterrestrial material.

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

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