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

The US wants to put a flag on Mars. But there’s a risk it could carry unwanted stowaways that might compromise future ...

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...

I'm absolutely thrilled with the results from the the first round of sample analysis. This asteroid is delivering everything I dreamed of it. The samples delivered by the Osiris-rex spacecraft from ...

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...

As part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, the spacecraft not only spent two years orbiting and imaging the asteroid, it also collected a precious sample of dust and small rocks from Bennu’s rubbly surface ...

In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...

Pristine samples collected from asteroids in space would be the ideal candidates, and successful sample collection missions have only been achieved by two countries: Japan (Hayabusa and Hayabusa2) and ...

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For months, NASA was unable to open the sample container from the Osiris-Rex asteroid probe. It was found to contain over 51 grams. NASA's Osiris-Rex probe has brought a total of 121.6 grams of ...