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

How Did Life Happen? NASA Says It Found Tantalizing Clues on Asteroid Bennu ...

Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how ...

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

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

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

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.

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

Asteroid Bennu samples contain life-friendly sugars, a strange "space-gum," and ancient stardust ...

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

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