Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

“That’s the kind of environment that could have been essential to the steps that lead from elements to life,” said the Smithsonian Institution’s Tim McCoy, one of the lead study authors. NASA’s Osiris ...

But the new research found that evaporated water on Bennu's parent asteroid left behind "the raw ingredients of life", said Tim McCoy, curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian's National Museum of ...

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As asteroids crash into worlds across the galaxy, "they're essentially seeding these planets with the necessary ingredients for life," Tim McCoy, the curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian's ...

NASA/James Tralie “We now know from Bennu that the raw ingredients of life were combining in really interesting and complex ways on Bennu’s parent body,” study co-lead author Tim McCoy ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of space ...

“That’s the kind of environment that could have been essential to the steps that lead from elements to life,” said the Smithsonian Institution’s Tim McCoy, one of the lead study author ...

Tim McCoy, co-lead author of the Nature study and curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Bennu is a carbon-rich space rock known as a rubble pile asteroid.