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

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

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

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 ...

Bennu was the target for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission, which touched down briefly on the space rock in October 2020 to gather over 4 ounces of material, and then brought that sample ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions reported the findings of the first in-depth analysis of the minerals and ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe has been orbiting the space rock known as Bennu for many months now. The spacecraft successfully gathered samples from the massive asteroid and will return that ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe has already had quite an eventful year. After ...

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.