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

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu, which landed in Utah's west desert in September 2023, could suggest rocks carrying an ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

"The detection of these key building blocks of life in the Bennu samples supports the theory that asteroids and their fragments seeded the early Earth with the raw ingredients that led to the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid ... delivered to Earth in 2023 by parachute inside a capsule released by OSIRIS-REx that landed in the Utah desert.

In other science news, rock and dust samples collected from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ... The OSIRIS-REx mission retrieved these samples in 2020, and they were safely returned to ...

After four years in space, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx craft made a brief landing on ... that sample collection canister landed, via parachute, in Utah. Scientists will be studying those samples of ...