"The orbital data provide a reliable framework from which to plan surface exploration for missions like those of the Artemis program. However, we haven't yet been to visit these areas, so we don't ...
Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light ...
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...
Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...
The minerals McCoy’s team identified paint a picture of one possible environment present on rocky celestial bodies 4.5 billion years ago. The presence of evaporites means that sodium-rich water once ...
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
Advances in technology—such as microscopic imaging and molecular techniques—have the potential to transform our understanding ...