There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid millions of miles away. The asteroid in question, ...

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

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

First off, in comparison to meteorites, which enter Earth's atmosphere while enduring a fiery reentry process before plummeting to the ground, the OSIRIS-REx samples are pristine due to the ...

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 ...

Although meteorites on Earth come from asteroids ... and the United States (OSIRIS-REx). NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu in September 2023 ...

Fragments of this meteorite, discovered by beaver trappers, fell over a lake. A layer of ice saved them from the depths and allowed scientists a peek into the birth of the solar system. Nearly 60 ...

The rocks and dust safely delivered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023 contain ... Bennu samples that we have never seen before in a meteorite or any extraterrestrial sample,” said ...

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

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate, and ammonia. Together, ...

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 ...