Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
A 200-foot-wide asteroid found in December has a one-in-83 chance of hitting Earth, according to space agencies.
It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...