The origins of life on our planet remains one science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

The asteroid in question, named Bennu, was the focus of a very dreamy NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx that launched in 2016.

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino acids, nucleobases, and minerals known as evaporites—all elements of ...

It was all the way back in September 2023 when the return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample-return mission landed at the ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned with samples from Bennu in 2023. Bennu is a near-Earth asteroid. The samples contained the building blocks of life and provide more evidence that asteroids ...

Credit: NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but the wait is proving ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous chunk of the asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023, and scientists have been analyzing it ever since. International scientific teams have ...