NASA asteroid sample contains life-critical water and carbon

A sample collected from the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu contains abundant water and carbon, both vital materials for the formation of our planet, NASA revealed on Wednesday. The finding offers yet more evidence for the theory that the foundations for life on Earth were seeded from outer space.
Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator said "The carbon and water molecules are exactly the kinds of material that we wanted to find. They are crucial elements in the formation of our own planet. And they're going to help us determine the origin of elements that could have led to life."
In 2020, the OSIRIS-REx mission collected rock and dust from Bennu and a capsule containing the precious cargo successfully returned to Earth a little over two weeks ago, landing in the Utah desert. It is now being painstakingly analyzed in a specialized clean room at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.