NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission collected samples from asteroid Bennu. Scientists have found amino acids, ammonia and other molecules essential to life on Earth.
This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...
Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...
A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
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An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...
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Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic ...