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

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

we had never seen this set of minerals in a meteorite. Before returning the samples, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spent over two years making observations around Bennu. From that two years of work ...

Unlike meteorite samples, samples collected from asteroids have ... and the ingredients for life. Another aim of the OSIRIS-REx mission is to link findings from samples in the laboratory to those from ...

Dust and other debris would rise into the atmosphere on Bennu striking Earth, blocking out the Sun and cooling the planet to ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but the wait is proving to be worth it. A new study published January 29 in ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous ... A similar asteroid that arrived on Earth as a meteorite would have lost many compounds due to heat and exposure to the atmosphere.

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were all five of the basic building block for life — Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino acids, nucleobases, and minerals known as evaporites—all elements of life’s ...

we had never seen this set of minerals in a meteorite. Before returning the samples, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spent over two years making observations around Bennu. From that two years of work ...