Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu ... However, the amino acid samples from Bennu show an even ...

The 120 g of material came from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, which OSIRIS-REx visited in 2020 ... deepening the mystery of why life only uses “left-handed” amino acids. Amino acid molecules ...

Samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the asteroid Bennu had organic molecules and minerals and possibly salty water and other life ingredients.

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 such ...

Scientists discovered thousands of organic molecular compounds in the Bennu samples, including abundant mineral salts, amino acids, nitrogen in the form of ammonia, and all five bases present in the ...