Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

A scoop of dust from an ancient time capsule hurtling through space has forced a rethink of how inert matter became all that ...

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

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

This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature photographed for the first time, and more.

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...