In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

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Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

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With the OSIRIS-REx space probe, the NASA space agency succeeded in collecting some material from the surface of asteroid ...

Kevin Righter started at University of Rochester last year, but before that he worked on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect ...

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.