There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered the essential building blocks to life on a sample from a distant asteroid. The sample, which the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from the asteroid Bennu and returned to ...

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 ...