The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

OSIRIS-REx, however, does have its own reasons to boast. For instance, the first-ever space-rock-sample-return mission was performed by Japan's aerospace agency, JAXA, which delivered about 5 grams (0 ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but the wait is proving to be worth it. A new study published January 29 in ...

Bennu, it seems, was born of a salty planetoid rife with the ingredients for life. Bennu as it exists today is essentially a rubble pile floating through space, the remains of an ancient collision ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth from outer space.

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.

“These samples from Bennu are an incredible discovery ... said U of A Regents Professor Dante Lauretta, who leads the OSIRIS-REx mission as its principal investigator. Lauretta is a co-author ...

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve and analyze samples from an asteroid. The findings do not show evidence ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...