Life’s ingredients have been found in samples from asteroid Bennu
Warm salty ponds, but no living creatures, also dotted the space rock’s precursor body
Analyses of dark rocks and dust collected from the asteroid Bennu show the sample has the biochemical building blocks of life, though the environment they formed in probably never proceeded to the life-creation stage.
NASA Johnson Space Center / Erika Blumenfeld and Joseph Aebersold