Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...
NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...
Bennu, it seems, was born of a salty planetoid rife with the ingredients for life. Bennu as it exists today is essentially a ...
NASA reaffirms its plan with SpaceX to return two astronauts from the ISS, following President Trump's remarks. Another ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
A mosaic image of asteroid Bennu, composed of 12 PolyCam images collected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 24 kilometers. (Credit: NASA/Goddard/University ...
Scanning electron microscope images of trona found in samples of the asteroid Bennu returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Trona is water-bearing sodium carbonate, also known commonly as soda ash.
Discover the fascinating findings from asteroid Bennu: pristine salt minerals reveal the presence of liquid water in the ...
NASA's Osiris-Rex mission has uncovered invaluable samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing ancient salty minerals and amino ...
A scanning electron microscope image of trona, a water-bearing sodium carbonate also known commonly as soda ash, found in samples of the asteroid Bennu.Credit...Rob Wardell, Tim Gooding and Tim ...
The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...