One of those is asteroid Bennu, the recent lucky target of an asteroid sample collection mission. In a mere 157 years – ...
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...
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 ...
When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...
A team of researchers have now modelled what will happen to the planet, climate and humans if this asteroid crashes on Earth ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...
This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...
Scientists recently discovered that San Bernardino County's Searles Lake contains minerals found in outer space.