This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...
NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...
Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.
The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve and analyze samples from an asteroid. The findings do not show evidence ...
A sample from a primitive asteroid that was parachuted into Utah's West Desert in 2023 revealed the building blocks of life, ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter essential to life in dust and rock retrieved from an asteroid known as Bennu. The finding supports the theory that near-Earth asteroids ...