NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

研究人员在从近地小行星 Bennu 收集的前所未有的样本中检测到了生命所必需的有机化合物和矿物质，这为小行星可能在地球历史早期就为地球提供了生命的组成部分这一观点提供了更多证据。

NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of space ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life in the solar system.

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission.

For months, NASA was unable to open the sample container from the Osiris-Rex asteroid probe. It was found to contain over 51 ...