Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...

Other federal science organizations haven't been spared, either — places like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

At the time of blood sample collection, eight of these 52 participants ... “Detecting cancers years before their clinical diagnosis could help provide management with a more favorable outcome ...

Dozens of NASA's spaceflight missions that launched from Florida could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.

ST. LOUIS – Before-and-after images snapped from space highlight the damage to St. Louis, days after an EF-3 tornado tore through the city, leaving five people dead. St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer ...

NASA tasked the OSIRIS-REx team that retrieved material from Bennu to examine it for clues to the nature and origins of life. Tantalizing evidence in the Bennu sample suggests that the asteroid ...

The historic attempt to sample the asteroid Bennu could provide ... investigator of OSIRIS-REx, after the team confirmed the spacecraft’s sample collection mechanism activated.

With the return of an Asteroid Bennu sample in 2023 as part of ... What was missing in the previous meteorite collection was knowledge of what happens after the circulation of aqueous fluid.

This possibility now looks unlikely after Glavin and Dworkin’s team discovered that the amino acids in the Bennu sample are a mix of left- and ... search ever larger amounts of asteroidal material ...

(NASA Goddard) Collected in October of 2020, this sample ... after salty lakes like Searles Lake, in the Mojave Desert, dry up. "We're seeing minerals in Bennu samples that we have never seen ...

When the spacecraft completed its long journey home more than a year ago, NASA split up a 120-gram sample ... in the Bennu cache and minerals crucial to life, including some never before seen ...

About 4 and 1/2 years ago, a spacecraft called OSIRIS-REx landed on the surface of an asteroid called Bennu. It drilled down and scooped up samples of rock and dust, and after ... pristine sample. So ...