Over millennia, this patch of desert has seen many uses ... The same Colorado building that houses OSIRIS-REx’s mission control contains the cavernous room where engineers build other NASA ...

In our recent episode we talked about the OSIRIS-REX mission, which successfully ... You notice that an unknown blob moves across the patch of sky that you’re observing over the ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino acids, nucleobases, and minerals known as evaporites—all elements of ...

What just happened? NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has unveiled discoveries from the analysis of samples collected from asteroid Bennu that shed new light on the potential origins of life in our solar ...

The asteroid in question, named Bennu, was the focus of a very dreamy NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx that launched in 2016. The first goal of OSIRIS-REx was to blast a spacecraft toward the ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission found ingredients for DNA and RNA on the asteroid Bennu. The discovery shows asteroids could seed planets with the precursors for life. It's also more evidence that life ...

Credit: NASA / Keegan Barber NASA's $800 million OSIRIS-Rex mission, short for Origins ... the capsule from 63,000 miles above Earth onto a patch of Utah desert seven years later.

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission. "The findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Japanese collaborators detected all five ...

Credit: NASA Studies of the pristine asteroid sample material returned to Earth by NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission from the asteroid Bennu reveal further evidence of water, organics and other ...

Dworkin is the mission’s project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ...