Exciting news is soaring through the cosmos! Blue Origin has just unveiled plans for its 10th human flight, NS-30, set to launch from Launch Site One in West Texas on Tuesday,5. The countdown is on!

REx mission found minerals on asteroid Bennu that match California’s Searles Lake, offering clues about ancient water, ...

"We have a wide collection of ancient meteorite samples with different chemistries, isotopic compositions, and mineralogies, these differences indicate separate parent bodies or parent asteroids ...

In September 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off a special ... in Bennu samples that we have never seen before in a meteorite or any extraterrestrial sample," Tim McCoy, curator of ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were all five of the basic building block for life — Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino acids, nucleobases, and minerals known as evaporites—all elements of life’s ...

DON'T MISS: First meteorite ever found in P.E.I. arrived with a literal ... samples that haven't been exposed to any of those changes, like those collected by OSIRIS-REx. "The only way this could be ...

Unlike meteorite samples, samples collected from ... and the ingredients for life. Another aim of the OSIRIS-REx mission is to link findings from samples in the laboratory to those from remote ...

Fragments of this meteorite, discovered by beaver trappers, fell over a lake. A layer of ice saved them from the depths and allowed scientists a peek into the birth of the solar system. Nearly 60 ...