"NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of our solar system," the statement reads ...
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...
New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The mission, which launched in Septembe ...
"The detection of these key building blocks of life in the Bennu samples supports the theory that asteroids and their fragments seeded the early Earth with the raw ingredients that led to the ...
Analyzing a sample from an asteroid named Bennu reveals the chemicals necessary to form DNA and RNA.
Some amino acids can be built in two ways that mirror each other, like a pair of right and left hands. Life on Earth uses the ...
Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...
Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...
There’s certainly nothing living on the asteroid Bennu, an airless, 1,614-ft. rubble pile orbiting the sun about 40.2 million ...
LA CRESCENT, Minn. (WXOW) -- The City of La Crescent has been awarded a grant from the State of Minnesota for solar energy ...
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
UK-based energy developer Harmony Energy and First Renewables say they will start building New Zealand’s biggest solar farm in Waikato this year. The Tauhei Solar Farm, near Te Aroha, is expected to ...