NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever collected. These fragments date back 4.5 billion years and contain salts, ...
Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu, similar to the ...
YR4, a near-Earth asteroid has a one-in-45 chance of hitting Planet Earth in December 2032, NASA and the European Space ...
A report published in Science Advances details when the asteroid could collide with Earth and the destruction it would cause.
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
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 ...