Studies of the sample reveal amino acids that “life on Earth uses to make proteins” plus evidence of water. Studies of the sample reveal amino acids that “life on Earth uses to make 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 ...

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Searching for organic compounds in the sample material from Bennu, he and his colleagues found the majority of the amino acids and all the nucleotide bases necessary for life on Earth. Such ...

Why Trust Us? Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023 ...

The sample was collected from Bennu in October 2020 by a NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx, or Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer. It marked the ...

Dr. Tim McCoy, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History curator of meteorites (center) and Rob Wardell (left), museum specialist of mineral sciences, load a sample into the scanning ...

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 ...

When the spacecraft completed its long journey home more than a year ago, NASA split up a 120-gram sample, collected in October 2020 from the asteroid Bennu, among researchers around the globe.

“Our odds of finding life elsewhere are increasing,” said Daniel Glavin, a senior scientist for sample return at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and a co-author of the two paper ...