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The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...
The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission.
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...
Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...
The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve ...
Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...
Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...