Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

The asteroid in question, named Bennu, was the focus of a very dreamy NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx that launched in ... can't be superimposed on a mirror image of itself no matter what you ...

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

In this video frame, Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins ... in two mirror-image versions ...

In 2016, NASA launched OSIRIS-REx ... microscope image of trona, a water-bearing sodium carbonate also known commonly as soda ash, found in samples of the asteroid Bennu.Credit ...

More:High resolution photos of asteroid materials revealed. How NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought Bennu sample back to Earth. The findings were reported in two journal articles on Wednesday.

A mosaic image of asteroid Bennu, composed of 12 PolyCam images collected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 24 kilometers. (Credit: NASA/Goddard/University ...