A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...
Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
The 60-metre object has ‘one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly sized rock ever’, says astronomer ...
The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...
A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...