When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. According to the study in Nature Astronom y, the team also found 14 of the 20 ...

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission.

It was all the way back in September 2023 when the return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample-return mission landed at the ...

Jason Dworkin, OSIRIS-REx project scientist, emphasized the mission's success in providing a large pristine asteroid sample rich in nitrogen and carbon. Scientists expect further analysis to ...