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 ...
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...