SpaceX is scheduled to launch its Maxar 3 mission, with two high-resolution commercial satellites on board, from the Kennedy ...
Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building ...
Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...
Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...
Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...
Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...
The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
Credit: NASA The Bennu samples from NASA were handled under ... with a ring structure containing carbon and nitrogen—using high-resolution mass spectrometry at Kyushu University.
Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid ...
More:High resolution photos of asteroid materials revealed. How NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought Bennu sample back to Earth. The findings were reported in two journal articles on Wednesday.