The chemical makeup of mineral inclusions preserved in impact glass hints at the site of a missing impact crater.
Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...