When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate, and ammonia. Together, ...

we had never seen this set of minerals in a meteorite. Before returning the samples, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spent over two years making observations around Bennu. From that two years of work ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino acids, nucleobases, and minerals known as evaporites—all elements of life’s ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous ... A similar asteroid that arrived on Earth as a meteorite would have lost many compounds due to heat and exposure to the atmosphere.

And this is where the idea for OSIRIS-REx was born. DANTE LAURETTA: Yeah, it was a really profound moment. Danny was well-known for studying a famous martian meteorite that had been found in ...

In September 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off a special ... in Bennu samples that we have never seen before in a meteorite or any extraterrestrial sample," Tim McCoy, curator of ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 million kilometres from Earth.

In September 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off a special delivery that ... "We're seeing minerals in Bennu samples that we have never seen before in a meteorite or any extraterrestrial ...

Unlike meteorite samples, samples collected from ... and the ingredients for life. Another aim of the OSIRIS-REx mission is to link findings from samples in the laboratory to those from remote ...

DON'T MISS: First meteorite ever found in P.E.I. arrived with a literal ... samples that haven't been exposed to any of those changes, like those collected by OSIRIS-REx. "The only way this could be ...