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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 ...

While scientists revealed the OSIRIS-REx findings this week, a newly discovered asteroid reached level three on the 10-point Torino space impactor hazard scale, the second highest rating given to ...

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 acids, nucleobases, and minerals known as evaporites—all elements of ...

Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve ...

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

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 samples are also providing a window into understanding what kind of chemical and biological processes were already underway as space rocks ... mission called OSIRIS-REx, or Origins, Spectral ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex probe has brought a total of 121.6 grams of material from the asteroid Bennu to Earth, more than twice as much as planned. This has now been announced by the US space agency.