The Bennu asteroid, a space rock not too far from Earth that is rich in carbon, continues to be a trove of information for ...

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

Could a dusty rock hurtling through space hold the recipe for life? NASA’s latest analysis of asteroid Bennu’s pristine ...

Scientists have revealed that asteroid Bennu is teeming with essential life molecules like ribose and glucose, significantly ...

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

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

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

The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

Bennu is believed to have originated from the shards of a much larger world. Curiously, asteroid Ryugu, sampled by the ...

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

We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start ...