The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ancient asteroid back to Earth has revealed that the building blocks of ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of space rock Bennu.

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023.

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 million kilometres from Earth. As part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission ...

It was all the way back in September 2023 when the return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample-return mission landed at the DOD's Utah Test and Training Range.

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission. It's a win for alien life.

New discoveries from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission were 'a complete surprise.' ...

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission.

NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of space rock Bennu.

NASA successfully brought the samples to Earth’s surface and—after some difficulties — opened the canister containing the rocky bits. An artist’s impression of OSIRIS-REx digging into Bennu.

Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA Studies of the pristine asteroid sample material returned to Earth by NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission ...