There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

Researchers say the asteroid Bennu has the building blocks for life on it. The samples collected and returned to Earth were ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...