4 days ago · The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As

101955 Bennu (provisional designation 1999 RQ36) is a carbonaceous asteroid in the Apollo group discovered by the LINEAR Project on 11 September 1999. It is a potentially hazardous object that is …

2 days ago · Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life began in our solar system.

3 days ago · Bennu samples contain life-friendly sugars, a strange "space-gum," and ancient stardust, offering fresh clues to how life's ingredients formed in the early solar system.

20 hours ago · NASA detected ribose, glucose and a weird “space gum” polymer on asteroid Bennu, offering fresh clues about how life may have first sparked billions of years ago.

4 days ago · Samples returned from asteroid Bennu contain bio-essential sugars such as ribose and glucose that may have formed in the parent asteroid from brines containing formaldehyde, according …

Nov 27, 2025 · An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on …

Aug 25, 2025 · The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, three new studies of the asteroid's sample materials show.

2 days ago · An illustrative image shows the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flying over the ancient asteroid Bennu. Samples from the asteroid revealed hidden sugars that are essential for life on Earth (NASA)

2 days ago · NASA’s Bennu samples have revealed life-linked sugars, a mysterious gum-like substance and even grains of ancient stardust.