Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
When you first hear the term “complete protein,” you may just think it’s one of those marketing buzzwords used to make ...
Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...
NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of space ...
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.
Scientists poring over a sample brought back from the asteroid Bennu have detected amino acids and complex mineral compounds, ...
REx brought back to Earth 121 grams of material from asteroid Bennu. This is the largest sample ever collected and brought ...
Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...
Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...
When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. According to the study in Nature Astronom y, the team also found 14 of the 20 ...
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...