NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...

FILE This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images ... real extraterrestrial organic material formed in space and not a result of contamination from Earth." FILE - OSIRIS ...

Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life, but also the salty remains of an ...

By Sage Rohrbach A mosaic image of the Bennu Asteriod, created using pictures from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx satellite that was near the asteroid for over two years. Courtesy of NASA via Wikimedia ...

NASA's latest asteroid sample from Bennu reveals amino acids and nucleobases, essential for life, sparking questions about extraterrestrial existence. These findings suggest life's building blocks are ...

NASA's Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life's Ingredients Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to ...