Asteroid Bennu, A rocky object located in the heart of our solar system's asteroid belt, has recently become the centre of a groundbreaking discovery for its potential to answer one of humanity's ...

Exciting news is soaring through the cosmos! Blue Origin has just unveiled plans for its 10th human flight, NS-30, set to launch from Launch Site One in West Texas on Tuesday,5. The countdown is on!

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

Dust and other debris would rise into the atmosphere on Bennu striking Earth, blocking out the Sun and cooling the planet to ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission provided support for this theory of the origins ... molecules required for building DNA and RNA, in the asteroid. By definition, living things are classified as ...

RNA, which transmits the instructions contained in genes to ... for another mission to the asteroid Apophis as it skirts by Earth in 2029. “Data from OSIRIS-REx adds major brushstrokes to a picture of ...

This image, taken by NASA's Osiris-Rex probe in December 2018, shows the asteroid Bennu. Scientists have identified 14 of the 20 amino acids used by terrestrial life, as well as the five nucleic acid ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) traveled 3.6 ...

(Courtesy: James Di Loreto, Smithsonian) A sample of asteroid dirt brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission contains amino acids and the nucleobases of RNA and DNA, plus brines that could ...

In September 2023, the space agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned ... store and transmit genetic instructions in DNA and RNA. “Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home ...