Bennu has long intrigued researchers due to its near-Earth orbit and carbon-rich composition. Scientists theorized that the ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

Scientists theorized that the asteroid contained traces of water and organic molecules and that similar asteroids could have brought these materials to a primordial Earth. Bennu’s parent ...

The latest discovery, unveiled by the NASA on January 29, came as a bit of a surprise and posed many exciting questions such as “Why didn’t life form on Bennu?” ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

It's been such an exciting thing to study," said Prof Russell. This latest study adds to growing evidence that asteroids brought water and organic material to Earth. "The early Solar System was really ...

For Kim Tait, those three words have long defined conditions for asteroids ... water evaporates and can serve as scaffolding for the production of molecules associated with biological processes on ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

The findings suggest that similar asteroids may have brought us the raw ... among the sources that delivered water and chemical building blocks for life to Earth before life started here ...