All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
NASA's latest asteroid sample from Bennu reveals amino acids and nucleobases, essential for life, sparking questions about ...
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...
NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining samples taken from the asteroid Bennu, which shed light on how widely the ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
NASA's ambitious Mars sample-return mission faces budget and timeline challenges, but private space company Rocket Lab may have a solution to save the day.
The scientists also found tiny crystals of rare salt minerals called halite and sylvite within Bennu's dust particles. These ...
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from asteroid Bennu in 2020.
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...
Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...
Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft have revealed ...
Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...