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The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

"This is a future area of study for astrobiologists from around the world to ponder," said Jason Dworkin, OSIRIS-REx's ...

Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...