Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 ... amino acids like the ones discovered in the Bennu sample into ...

This figure illustrates key molecules and minerals discovered in samples of near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu ... while the lower left depicts amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. The Bennu ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Samples brought back to Earth from asteroid "Bennu" in 2023 have been found to contain crucial building blocks for ...

Most recently, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) obtained samples from asteroid 101955 Bennu. In addition to confirming ...