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

NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of space ...

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

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining samples taken from the asteroid Bennu, which shed light on how widely the ...

The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...

or OSIRIS-REx for short, traveled to the asteroid – about 200 million miles away from Earth. NASA said the spacecraft successfully collected a sample of rocks and dust from the asteroid’s ...

FILE - OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule on ground. (NASA) What they're saying: "That's the kind of environment that could have been essential to the steps that lead from elements to life," said ...