The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...
NASA reaffirms its plan with SpaceX to return two astronauts from the ISS, following President Trump's remarks. Another ...
Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...
NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of space ...
As more spacecraft are launched, the risk increases that uncontrolled space debris - those without active guidance - will ...
In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...
A team of scientists discovered that the near-Earth asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of minerals and organic molecules, including many that are building blocks of life. But what has the 4.5 ...
Scientists found 11 minerals in Bennu samples, including calcite, halite, and sylvite, that form when water with dissolved ...
Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.
Rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain organic matter, including amino acids and all ...
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.