Building on this foundation, Dr. Jason Dworkin from NASA Goddard described his work analyzing meteorites and asteroid samples—what he calls "witnesses" to the early solar system. The OSIRIS-REx ...

The White House Office of Management and Budget said in its request that NASA’s current spending of more than $7 billion a year on nearly 100 science missions is “unsustainable.” “The ...

It’s also found in DNA, RNA and other molecules, Hameroff said, so they hope to find evidence of it in the Bennu material. The asteroid material, of course, is not as complex as a neuron.

Meanwhile, OSIRIS-REx has been renamed OSIRIS-APEX and is now en route to study the asteroid Apophis. The search for life’s origins continues! Watch the video below to explore this discovery in detail ...

Did you know that many of us have up to 4% neanderthal DNA? Did you know that many of us have up to 4% neanderthal DNA? And that 100% of your DNA may come from outer space? No joke. The ...

The Osiris Rex spacecraft, now called Osiris Apex, which collected this extraordinary sample, is now aiming at a new target. It's on a path to rendezvous with the Apophis asteroid when it whizzes ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

The OSIRIS-REx sample containment pod is shown here, shortly after touching down in October 2023. (NASA) "The only way this could be discovered is because of controlled sample return by a ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission successfully touched down on asteroid Bennu when it was 207 million miles away from Earth and brought back rock and dust samples.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of our solar system. Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home planet’s history, and Bennu’s ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...