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 from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...
“NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of our solar system,” Nicky Fox, associate administrator of the Science Mission ...
Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...
It was all the way back in September 2023 when the return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample-return mission landed at the ...
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous ... has confirmed Bennu shows that the solar system had many key organic compounds in abundance long before Earth even formed.
The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...
Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...
Two science teams pored over samples from the B-type asteroid Bennu, finding chemicals linked to the beginnings of life and ...