NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

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

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission.

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

The asteroid in question, named Bennu, was the focus of a very dreamy NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx that launched in 2016. The first goal of OSIRIS-REx was to blast a spacecraft toward the ...