Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...
Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...
Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...
NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...
Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...
FILE - OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule on ground. (NASA) What they're saying: "That's the kind of environment that could have been essential to the steps that lead from elements to life," said ...