NASA has revealed which countries could be hit if a “city killer” asteroid strikes Earth with a map of the risk corridor. Scientists have slashed the odds of a collision between ...
Earth’s inner core is shifting, slowing, and reshaping. Scientists study its impact on magnetic fields, pole movement, and ...
The Three Gorges Dam in China is often praised as a marvel of modern engineering, but according to NASA, this colossal ...
Scientists from South Korea have conducted simulations regarding the potential impact of asteroid Bennu on Earth in the year ...
Bennu asteroid sample reveals amino acids and nucleobases essential for Water-related minerals in the sample point to ancient chemical processe Equal left- and right-handed amino acids raise questions ...
A hot water extract from an asteroid Bennu sample (left, “Bennu tea”) was found to contain a surprising abundance of ammoni.(NASA) In a major twist to the study of life beyond Earth ...
Asteroid Bennu, once thought a lifeless relic, has surprised scientists with briny traces of life's raw ingredients. Samples collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reveal not only water marks from ...
A modern case in point: The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. The OSIRIS-REx mission launched in 2016. Its main aim was to study Bennu and retrieve samples to bring back ...
Meanwhile, significant discoveries from asteroid Bennu's samples hint at the origins of life on Earth, suggesting that celestial bodies may have contributed to the development of life forms. This ...
A portion of the asteroid Bennu sample delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, set into a microscope slide at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Credit: Molly ...
A team of researchers reported in the journal Nature on Wednesday that the asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of organic molecules, including many crucial building blocks of life.
NASA stated that studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu that were taken by the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer ...