Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...
Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building ...
It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
A 200-foot-wide asteroid found in December has a one-in-83 chance of hitting Earth, according to space agencies.