XR flew about 1.37 million miles (2.2M km) away from Earth. The space rock is estimated to be about 300-700 km (248-434 miles ...
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Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
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The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...
Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.
Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a NASA spacecraft from an asteroid. In it, they've found new clues about the ingredients for life that were present in the early ...
Discover the fascinating findings from asteroid Bennu: pristine salt minerals reveal the presence of liquid water in the ...