In a triumph for NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, new findings suggest that tiny bits of rock retrieved from the ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
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 ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...