A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
The 60-metre object has ‘one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly sized rock ever’, says astronomer ...
Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...
Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...
NASA scientists discovered a plethora of precursors to life on the asteroid Bennu, demonstrating the importance of Earthbound ...
The asteroid Bennu, visited by a NASA robotic probe five years ago, contained many of the basic building blocks for life as ...
NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...