Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

The findings shed light on how proteins like collagen may survive for millions of years within dinosaur bones.

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the ...

The asteroid Bennu, visited by a NASA robotic probe five years ago, contained many of the basic building blocks for life as we know it, including amino acids, according to long-awaited research ...

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

New AI research suggests organic molecules on Ceres likely originated from asteroid impacts, not internal activity.

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

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

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...