NASA's Bennu Asteroid Sample Contains Carbon, Water

Could Indicate the Building Blocks of Life on the Asteroid

OSIRIS-REx Sample Collector

Initial studies of the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu sample collected in space and brought to Earth by NASA show evidence of high-carbon content and water, which together could indicate the building blocks of life on Earth may be found in the rock. NASA made the news Wednesday from its Johnson Space Center in Houston whe…