Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...
Researchers offer their most comprehensive assessment to date of the history of water and organic compounds in a sample ...
The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid ... the researchers have created a reference for the ...
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
The DNA ingredients discovered on the asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission suggest that life-building blocks exist ...
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
the daring OSIRIS-REx mission is bearing scientific fruit. When the spacecraft completed its long journey home more than a year ago, NASA split up a 120-gram sample, collected in October 2020 from the ...