A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

NASA announced that samples that a spacecraft recovered from a near-Earth asteroid contains minerals that are crucial to life. The discovery provides new insight into the formation of the early solar ...

Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.

Archaeologists have unearthed a rare and substantial Egyptian blue ingot at Emperor Nero's Domus Aurea palace in Rome, ...