NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off after another ...
Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...
Analyzing a sample from an asteroid named Bennu reveals the chemicals necessary to form DNA and RNA.
This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...
Organic molecules – including amino acids absent in known biology – salts, and nucleotides were found in the historic ...
Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...
An HTC headset designed to work in space is offsetting the physical and psychological challenges of humans living off-world.
A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...
Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light ...
A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.