Two new studies from the asteroid Bennu reveal pre-biology deep in space.

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light on the perennial question of how life began on our planet. The revelation, in two studies published Wednesday, is the result of work on just 120 grams of material -- about…

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

A arrived at asteroid Bennu, collected a small sample of rock, and brought it back to Earth in 2023. Here's what was inside.

Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday.

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu.

Nasa said that the findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest the conditions necessary for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system.

Mr. Dollar Ton shares a report from the BBC: The chemical building blocks of life have been found, among many other complex chemical compounds, in the grainy dust of an asteroid called Bennu, an analysis reveals. Samples of the space rock, which were scooped up by a Nasa spacecraft and brought to Ea...

It's a 65-million-year-old space rock stuffed with amino acids, DNA bases, and more, boffins report

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft brought rock samples from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Now, in the analysis of the rock, scientists have found building blocks essential for life.