Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how life on Earth got started. The space agency has reportedly discovered ...

When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu, scientists expected ancient space dust. Instead, early analysis revealed organic compounds, water-related minerals, and ...

Penn State researchers think a key ingredient for life may have formed in deep freeze, not in a warm asteroid puddle. A space sample with a new twistScientists at Penn State; led by geoscientist ...

The first grains of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu are turning out to be far richer than many scientists dared hope, packed with organic molecules that speak directly to how life may have first ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than two years ago, a robotic spacecraft dropped off a delivery of rocky samples from the surface of Bennu. The material has ...

There’s certainly nothing living on the asteroid Bennu, an airless, 1,614-ft. rubble pile orbiting the sun about 40.2 million miles from Earth. But that doesn’t mean that Bennu hasn’t all at once ...

Scientists found compounds in asteroid samples that are essential for life on Earth. They could also contain molecules ...

Did the ingredients for life as we know it exist in the early solar system? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...