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 ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu hint that some of life’s ingredients were forming long before Earth existed. NASA’s ...

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

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an ...

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an ...

“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 ...

Scientists have finally discovered how amino acids essential for life formed on the 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu.

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 ...

A new study offers a look at how the building blocks of life might ...

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 ...