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

In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...

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

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

Scientists recently discovered that San Bernardino County's Searles Lake contains minerals found in outer space.

For months, NASA was unable to open the sample container from the Osiris-Rex asteroid probe. It was found to contain over 51 ...

Bennu is a potentially hazardous asteroid that has a 1-in-2,700 chance ... To avoid contamination, the sample container was taken to a clean room before being opened. The researchers behind ...

The US wants to put a flag on Mars. But there’s a risk it could carry unwanted stowaways that might compromise future ...

These needles — roughly 10 times thinner than a human hair — are water-bearing sodium carbonates (or soda ash) found in the samples of asteroid Bennu ... The sample container was pumped ...

A similar asteroid that arrived on Earth as a meteorite ... hydrated sodium carbonate salts highlighted in purple. The Bennu sample container. Credit: NASA "We're seeing minerals in Bennu samples ...

Analyses of rock and dust samples from the asteroid Bennu collected and brought to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft show ...