Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...

For months, NASA was unable to open the sample container from the Osiris-Rex asteroid probe ... sample will remain at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center for further research, with the remainder ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

The asteroid in question, named Bennu, was the focus of a very dreamy NASA mission ... words, OSIRIS-REx was meant to deliver untouched asteroid chunks home to be analyzed in a lab.

The research marks the first in-depth analysis of Bennu's organics and minerals and more scientific results from the OSIRIS-REx team are due in the coming months. NASA has also stored 70% of the ...

More than 75% of the sample remains unexplored, OSIRIS-REx project scientist Jason Dworkin says. Pieces are archived at the NASA Johnson Space Center, a lab in Japan and soon, at a Canadian space ...

Jason Dworkin, project scientist for OSIRIS ... lab under microscope in November 2023, shortly after it arrived from the curation team at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.