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 ...

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 ...

Bennu appears to have formed around 65 million years ago from the debris of a parent asteroid. Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for ...

PARIS — Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the “basic building blocks” for life, shedding new light on the perennial question of how life began on our planet.

WASHINGTON - 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 ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light on the perennial question of how life began on our planet. The revelation, ...