Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best evidence to date that ...

When the spacecraft completed its long journey home more than a year ago, NASA split up a 120-gram sample, collected in ... many of the chemical building blocks of life, such as amino acids ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday.

Scientists report asteroid samples retrieved by NASA hold the building blocks for life and the remains of an ancient water world. Dick Button, Olympic skating champion and TV analyst, dies at 95 ...

While that sample return was an incredible feat of engineering, its arrival on Earth was just the beginning of the scientific adventure. Scientists also revealed the discovery of clays and brines ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life, but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported on Wednesday. The findings provide the ...

thanks to pristine samples collected from the asteroid Bennu. The findings, published in Nature Astronomy and other journals, reveal that Bennu contains the essential building blocks of life ...

The samples from Bennu, then around 300 million ... "We now know we have the basic building blocks to move along this pathway towards life, but we don't know how far along that pathway this ...