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 ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

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

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Discoveries from an asteroid that contain the building blocks of life are making waves in the scientific community, and one of the key scientists involved is right here at the University of Rochester.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe has been orbiting the space rock known as Bennu for many months now. The spacecraft successfully gathered samples from the massive asteroid and will return that ...

The spacecraft OSIRIS-REx returned to Earth in September 2023 after a yearslong mission to the nearby asteroid. "NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on Dec. 2 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles. This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of ...

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from ... [+] a range of 15 miles. As wide as The Eiffel Tower is tall, the asteroid Bennu is a ...