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

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building ...

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 detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe dropped off samples of asteroid Bennu in 2023, and now those samples have been analyzed by researchers for their contents.

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Some amino acids can be built in two ways that mirror each other, like a pair of right and left hands. Life on Earth uses the ...

Joint Press Release by Hokkaido University, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Kyushu University ...

and successful sample collection missions have only been achieved by two countries: Japan (Hayabusa and Hayabusa2) and the United States (OSIRIS-REx). NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 ...

and successful sample collection missions have only been achieved by two countries: Japan (Hayabusa and Hayabusa2) and the United States (OSIRIS-REx). NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 ...