Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

Learn about the molecules and materials found in samples of asteroid Bennu, including sugars, space gum, and an abundance of ...

LifeTracer is not a universal life detector. Rather, it provides a foundation for interpreting complex organic mixtures. The Bennu findings remind us that life-friendly chemistry may be widespread ...

The nitrogen in the gum was found to be in nitrogen heterocycles, which are the building blocks of nucleobases in DNA and RNA ...

Bennu samples reveal biological sugars, a strange, gum-like material, and ancient stardust that shed light on the early solar ...

NASA revealed that scientists discovered sugars that are “essential” to life and a “gum-like” substance on the space rock ...

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

Bennu asteroid discovery: Scientists found essential life-building molecules on asteroid Bennu. Sugars like ribose and ...

Asteroid Bennu samples contain life-friendly sugars, a strange "space-gum," and ancient stardust ...

A sleep-inducing molecule humans use to make proteins was found, along with other amino acids, on an asteroid named Bennu.

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...