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

But Bennu bucked the trend. The team found equal parts left-handedness and right-handedness in their OSIRIS-REx samples, referred to as a "racemic" mixture. "I have to admit, I was a little ...

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

HUMANS have come a step closer to finding aliens after the “building blocks for life” were discovered by scientists on an ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul from beyond the moon.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous chunk of the asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023, and scientists have been analyzing it ever since. International scientific teams have ...

The sample, which the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from the asteroid Bennu and returned to Earth in 2023, contains all five nucleobases — the "letters" that make up DNA and RNA — alongside ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex probe has brought a total of 121.6 grams ... researchers all over the world will be able to request parts of it; several samples have already been sent. One can even be admired ...

But Bennu bucked the trend. The team found equal parts left-handedness and right-handedness in their OSIRIS-REx samples, referred to as a "racemic" mixture. "I have to admit, I was a little ...

The most notable parts are probably that researchers found those aforementioned ... "This is a future area of study for astrobiologists from around the world to ponder," said Jason Dworkin, OSIRIS-REx ...