NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission set out to grab a small scoop of rock from asteroid Bennu and bring it home. Instead, it delivered ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft didn’t just collect rocks from asteroid Bennu — it brought back samples that are rewriting our ...
A rare carbonaceous meteorite discovered in the Western Sahara has captured the attention of scientists for containing grains ...
The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.
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Samples of asteroids contain a range of organic molecules. Do asteroids raining down on Earth explain how life started on ...