The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

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It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

Samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the asteroid Bennu had organic molecules and minerals and possibly salty water and other life ingredients.

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Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the ...