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 Wednesday. The findings provide the ...

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

Scientists said they didn’t find evidence of life on Bennu, but they did find evidence of the building blocks of life. President Trump asks Elon Musk to help bring back NASA astronauts ...

NASA’s findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost right from the start.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — 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 Wednesday.

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last September found molecules, including amino acids, which are essential ...

A NASA spacecraft brought samples from the asteroid Bennu back to Earth in 2023. The first in-depth analyses of that material have revealed organic molecules, including building blocks of life.

but they did find evidence of the building blocks of life. “Finding the ingredients to life is always very interesting,” said Jason Dworkin, Senior Scientist at NASA. Dworkin co-authored a ...