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 is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to defend against future asteroid threats, but government budget cuts are ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu, brought back by the OSIRIS-REx mission, reveal key molecules for life ... This image, taken by NASA's Osiris-Rex probe in December 2018, shows the asteroid Bennu.

What’s more, Webb used its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument to observe glowing interstellar gas and dust illuminated ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, successfully collected 120 grams of samples from Bennu in 2020 and delivered them to Earth in September 2023. Scientists have since been analyzing ...

The samples were delivered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission—the first US project to bring asteroid samples home. Bennu was an especially interesting target. Prior work had suggested asteroids have the ...

In Sept. 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission provided support for this theory of the origins of life. The mission returned 121.6 grams of a sample of an asteroid, called Bennu, to Earth. This is the ...

NASA's Bennu Sample Reveals Building Blocks of Life & Water-Rich Minerals NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned samples from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu in September 2023. Initial ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission successfully touched down on asteroid Bennu when it was 207 million miles away from Earth and brought back rock and dust samples. Read more: Bennu asteroid reveals its ...