When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

The doorbell camera caught it all. A crew wheels the OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sample return capsule into a cleanroom on Sept. 24, 2023. Credit: NASA / Keegan Barber NASA's $800 million OSIRIS-Rex ...

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

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

NASA will provide an update on science results from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, January 29, which delivered a sample of ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu in September 2023 -- the largest sample ever returned to Earth. Now, an international team of OSIRIS-REx ...

In a separate train of thought — and my personal favorite Bennu discovery so far — the OSIRIS-REx sample analysis also ...

Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

OREX-800044-101, the sample that was analysed by the Japanese members of the OSIRIS-REx sample analysis team. Credit: Yasuhiro Oba One of the reasons that the discovery is so significant is that ...

The OSIRIS-REx sample analysis team identified a variety of salts, including sodium carbonates, phosphates, sulfates, and chlorides. Associate Professor Nick Timms, an author of the Nature article ...