As more spacecraft are launched, the risk increases that uncontrolled space debris - those without active guidance - will ...
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
NASA reaffirms its plan with SpaceX to return two astronauts from the ISS, following President Trump's remarks. Another ...
The asteroid in question, named Bennu ... pluck up some space rock samples with a robotic arm. The second goal was to seal those samples within the craft for the long journey back to Earth ...
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 ...
In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.
Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...
Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...
Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids.