DNA from a distance ...

Scientists studying Bennu samples have discovered that its chemistry is far from uniform. Organic compounds and minerals ...

We’ve had a first look at samples from a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid and they are full of carbon and water – the necessary ingredients for life. The samples were extracted from Bennu by the ...

A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil.