There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
For months, NASA was unable to open the sample container from the Osiris-Rex asteroid probe. It was found to contain over 51 ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe dropped off samples of asteroid Bennu in 2023, and now those samples have been analyzed by researchers for their contents.
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
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 ...
The first goal of OSIRIS-REx was to blast a spacecraft toward the grayish, lumpy object and get it really close to the surface so the probe could pluck up some space rock samples with a robotic arm.
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 ...