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

The probability of humanity being the sole technological civilization in the observable universe is considered to be less ...

Media interested in participating by phone must RSVP no later than two hours prior to the start of the call to ... Launched on Sept. 8, 2016, OSIRIS-REx was the first U.S. mission to collect a sample ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

The asteroid in question, named Bennu, was the focus of a very dreamy NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx that launched in ... very early on, prior to the origin of life," Glavin said.

OSIRIS-REx was the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid ... organic chemistry that occurred in the solar system prior to the emergence of life," Danny Glavin, NASA's senior ...

After several prior attempts to adapt the nonfiction ... about the challenges and triumphs of the OSIRIS-REx mission, and what scientists hope it will teach us about how life on Earth began.

No prior programming experience is required ... As members of the NASA OSIRIS-Rex Team, we analyze organic solids from the return mission from asteroid Bennu to understand their thermal history. We ...

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