Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world..
New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The mission, which launched in Septembe ...
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
Samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the asteroid Bennu had organic molecules and minerals and possibly salty water and other life ingredients.
On this date, Jan. 29, 1859, American astronomer William Cranch Bond died. Cranch and his son, George Phillps Bond, ...