The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...

Buck’s presentation will include the initial analysis of the material that was returned to Earth 17 months ago and highlight the exciting scientific discoveries ...

"Many of them had feathers, [so] they could insulate themselves just like mammals can," Brusatte said. In addition, some ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size could do.

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites captured rare water covering the playa. Its mineral-rich brines bear ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

Meteorites can tell us a lot about the nature ... like those collected by OSIRIS-REx. Content continues below The OSIRIS-REx sample containment pod is shown here, shortly after touching down ...

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 ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces ... Africa's Sahara — would be stripped away if present in falling meteorites. "This discovery was only possible by analyzing samples ...