Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...
International team finds glucose and ribose in samples from asteroid Bennu, marking first glucose discovery in space ...
It’s been hypothesized for decades that life on Earth may not have been as “homegrown” as one might think and now, we’re ...
Retired astronaut and current Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) celebrated NASA ’s “pretty exciting” announcement on Thursday after ...
When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
Sugars essential for biology have been discovered in a gum-like substance in fragments from the Bennu space-rock.
NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...
Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...
Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...
A new analysis of samples returned from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has revealed a rich collection of organic molecules, including several chemical building blocks used by life on Earth, and a ...