NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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

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

Why Trust Us? Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023 ...

Asteroid Bennu, as imaged by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's camera. (NASA Goddard) Collected in October of 2020, this sample was the very first NASA ever returned from an asteroid for study by ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth. As part of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, the ...

To learn as much as we can, though, scientists need pristine samples that haven't been exposed to any of those changes, like those collected by OSIRIS-REx. "The only way this could be discovered is ...

In a separate train of thought — and my personal favorite Bennu discovery so far — the OSIRIS-REx sample analysis also communicated something peculiar about the "chirality" of molecules found ...

In September 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off a special delivery that scientists ... Collected in October of 2020, this sample was the very first NASA ever returned from an asteroid for ...