Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

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

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

The DNA ingredients discovered on the asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission suggest that life-building blocks exist ...

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...

Discoveries from an asteroid that contain the building blocks of life are making waves in the scientific community, and one of the key scientists involved is right here at the University of Rochester.

As part of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, the spacecraft not only spent ... a capsule containing the pristine asteroid sample returned to Earth, landing in the Utah desert in the United States.

Once there, the spacecraft orbited the asteroid for nearly two years as flight engineers searched for a landing site. Upon making contact with the space rock, OSIRIS-REx fired a burst of nitrogen ...

Bennu was the target for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission ... and then brought that sample back to Earth for a landing in the Utah desert in September 2023. While the odds of Bennu ...