NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

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

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

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A visit to an asteroid is revealing the origins of life in our solar system. In 2023, the OSIRIS-REx mission brough samples ...

Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...

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

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...

Retired astronaut and current Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) celebrated NASA ’s “pretty exciting” announcement on Thursday after ...

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