Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission ... of ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic ...

The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching ... and confirm the presence of amino acids, nitrogen in the form of ammonia and even parts of the genetic ...

Credit: NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ... mission and very careful curation in nitrogen to isolate ...

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 ...

Upon making contact with the space rock, OSIRIS-REx fired a burst of nitrogen from its Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism to stick the landing and prevent itself from sinking through the ...