The Pallas-1 rocket—like Ceres-1 it is also named after a major planetary body in the main asteroid belt—uses a kerosene-liquid oxygen propellant mix and will eventually be adapted so that the ...
Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.
Most of the $1 billion mission's cache has been set ... and dirt from the potentially waterlogged dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid belt. Jupiter's moon, Europa, and Saturn's moon, Enceladus ...