The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life in the solar system.

The chemical makeup of mineral inclusions preserved in impact glass hints at the site of a missing impact crater.

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

Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining samples taken from the asteroid Bennu, which shed light on how widely the ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu, which landed in Utah's west desert in September 2023, could suggest rocks carrying an ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will brief media at 11 a.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 29, to provide an update on ...