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

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

“It’s all I ever wanted to do,” said Connolly, founding chair and professor in the Department of Geology within the School of Earth & Environment and a research associate in the Department of Earth ...

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 ...

While the technology still needs significant work, a new analysis of meteorites points to valuable targets in the solar ...

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 ...

Learn more about the top theories about how life began on Earth, and how it may not have started from scratch.

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 Academ | Space ...

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples of the 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu to Earth. Upon examining them, scientists discovered that the asteroid – which existed when the Solar ...

Scientists have discovered new evidence suggesting that the building blocks of life can form in conditions different from those on Earth using samples retrieved from Nasa’s 2023 OSIRIS REx mission.

A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped ...