Organic molecules have been detected in samples collected by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu. This is what an asteroid looks like after playing tag with a spacecraft It’s also possible that as space rocks smashed into other planets in our solar system, they might have been carrying some of the same building blocks of life. Fortunately, a sample from another asteroid named Bennu will be delivered to Earth in September by NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx spacecraft