The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...
Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...
The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...
Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...