NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu, brought back by the OSIRIS-REx mission, reveal key molecules for life ... This image, taken by NASA's Osiris-Rex probe in December 2018, shows the asteroid Bennu.

With an estimated 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe, the existence of other technological species is ...

What’s more, Webb used its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument to observe glowing interstellar gas and dust illuminated by a supernova explosion approximately 350 years ago. The material glows in ...