NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe has been orbiting the space rock known as Bennu for many months now. The spacecraft successfully gathered samples from the massive asteroid and will return that ...
Scientists have discovered traces of organic compounds in asteroid samples brought back by NASA, a finding that could suggest ...
For months, NASA was unable to open the sample container from the Osiris-Rex asteroid probe. It was found to contain over 51 ...
The first goal of OSIRIS-REx was to blast a spacecraft toward the grayish, lumpy object and get it really close to 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 ...
Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
It was all the way back in September 2023 when the return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample-return mission landed at the ...
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
Samples returned from an asteroid contain a surprising abundance of the basic ingredients of life. They were discovered to be ...