Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...
Bennu, it seems, was born of a salty planetoid rife with the ingredients for life. Bennu as it exists today is essentially a ...
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...
Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...