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 ...

It was all the way back in September 2023 when the return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample-return mission landed at the ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous chunk of the asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023, and scientists have ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on Dec. 2 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles. This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of ...

D.C. These revelations could not have been made without the material brought back by OSIRIS-REx, said Danny Glavin, a senior sample scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt ...

Now, an international team of OSIRIS-REx sample analysis team scientists, led by Dr. Daniel Glavin and Dr. Jason Dworkin at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, has reported the discovery of ...

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve and analyze samples from an asteroid. The findings do not show evidence ...

Glavin said the ones from Bennu are valid — "real extraterrestrial organic material formed in space and not a result of contamination from Earth." FILE - OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule on ground.

Officials behind the Osiris-Rex probe, which landed on Bennu earlier ... told reporters as the space agency focuses on making sure no more is lost. Sampling an asteroid: This image sequence ...

Credit: NASA Studies of the pristine asteroid sample material returned to Earth by NASA’s Osiris-Rex ... of America's space program through news reporting. Osiris-Rex Asteroid Samples Shed ...