Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

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Purdue professor along with a team of scientists analyze asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to give a better ...

After traveling two billion miles over more than two years, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, collected ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

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

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Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe dropped off samples of asteroid Bennu in 2023, and now those samples have been analyzed by researchers for their contents.