Credit: NASA These building blocks for life detected in the Bennu samples have been found before in extraterrestrial rocks. However, identifying them in a pristine sample collected in space supports ...

When the spacecraft completed its long journey home more than a year ago, NASA split up a 120-gram sample, collected in ... many of the chemical building blocks of life, such as amino acids ...

NASA has presented rock and dust samples from the asteroid Bennu which exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life.

Scientists said they didn’t find evidence of life on Bennu, but they did find evidence of the building blocks of life. “Finding the ingredients to life is always very interesting,” said ...

Scientists said they didn’t find evidence of life on Bennu, but they did find evidence of the building blocks of life. “Finding the ingredients to life is always very interesting,” said Jason Dworkin, ...