When NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission brought back samples from asteroid 101955 Bennu, researchers found that they contained amino ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Penn State researchers think a key ingredient for life may have formed in deep freeze, not in a warm asteroid puddle. A space sample with a new twistScientists at Penn State; led by geoscientist ...

Did the ingredients for life as we know it exist in the early solar system? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, delivered to Earth in 2023 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

Analyzing a precious bit of space dust no bigger than a teaspoon, the Penn State team used custom instruments capable of measuring isotopes, slight variations in the mass of atoms. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa ...

"This confirms that life's building blocks can be formed in a diversity of environments throughout the universe." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

NASA is currently tracking a bus-sized asteroid set to zip past the Earth on January 31 at a whopping 8,478 miles per hour. Known as 2022 OC3, the space rock is estimated to be about 24 feet across ...

Early last year, there was talk that the newly-discovered Asteroid 2024 YR4 had a really small, but probable chance of striking the Moon in 2032. Now, scientists are revealing what might occur if such ...