There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British ...
Researchers have discovered geologic evidence that suggests California is 'peeling apart' deep beneath Earth's surface. This ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
In research papers published Wednesday in the journals Nature and Nature Astronomy, scientists from NASA and other ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...
Rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain organic matter, including amino acids and all ...