NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago. Although meteorites on Earth ...
Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
Bennu in September 2023—the largest sample ever returned to Earth. Now, an international team of OSIRIS-REx sample analysis team scientists, led by Dr. Daniel Glavin and Dr. Jason Dworkin at the ...