NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...
The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
Researchers have pioneered an innovative method using helioseismology to measure the solar radiative opacity under extreme conditions. This groundbreaking work not only reveals gaps in our ...
Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...
When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...