The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...

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A scoop of dust from an ancient time capsule hurtling through space has forced a rethink of how inert matter became all that ...

RAC will sample different surfaces for exposure ... "Instead of digging or drilling, LPV is going to use compressed gas to blow regolith into a canister," Harris explained, then inquiring ...

Before going on a spacewalk, astronauts must follow a decompression protocol to avoid getting decompression sickness (more commonly known as “the bends”), a condition in which nitrogen gas ...

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A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...