Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

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 ...

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

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

Two science teams pored over samples from the B-type asteroid Bennu, finding chemicals linked to the beginnings of life and brine that is of interest for future space exploration.

Dworkin is the mission’s project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ...

“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 papers. In 2016, NASA ...

Researchers have made exciting discoveries: A large American-Japanese-German group led by NASA's Goodard Space Flight Center reports "that Bennu samples ... blocks for the path to life," said ...

Additionally, researchers uncovered salts in the Bennu cache and minerals ... decision to launch the vehicle’s test flights out of South Texas on a path that takes the spacecraft over populated ...