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 ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...
When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
With the OSIRIS-REx space probe, the NASA space agency succeeded in collecting some material from the surface of asteroid ...
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...