Scientists have discovered the essential building blocks to life on a sample from a distant asteroid. The sample, which the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from the asteroid Bennu and returned to ...

The OSIRIS-REx sample analysis team identified a variety of salts, including sodium carbonates, phosphates, sulfates, and chlorides. Associate Professor Nick Timms, an author of the Nature article ...

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 ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

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

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 ...

D.C. These revelations could not have been made without the material brought back by OSIRIS-REx, said Danny Glavin, a senior sample scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...