Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...
SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even ...
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life in the solar system.
When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. According to the study in Nature Astronom y, the team also found 14 of the 20 ...
Scientists have discovered traces of organic compounds in asteroid samples brought back by NASA, a finding that could suggest ...
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Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...
Explorer 1 became the first successfully launched satellite by the United States when it was sent to space on 31 January 1958 ...
Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...
Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...
Scientists found 11 minerals in the samples, but more importantly, they found 14 out of 20 key building blocks for life -- at ...
Researchers say the asteroid Bennu has the building blocks for life on it. The samples collected and returned to Earth were ...