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NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of space ... again, the genetic components of DNA and RNA." Advertisement.

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar system, ...

This helped OSIRIS-REx to scoop up 121.6 g (4.29 oz), ... In addition, Bennu contains all five of the nucleotide bases present in DNA and RNA.

Jason Dworkin, project scientist for OSIRIS-REx at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, uses a microscope to view a sample from the asteroid Bennu in the center’s ...

OSIRIS-REx, the first US mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, launched in 2016. ... Even more remarkably, all five DNA and RNA nucleobases—adenine, cytosine, thymine, guanine, and uracil—were ...

It was all the way back in September 2023 when the return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample-return mission landed at the DOD's Utah Test and Training Range.

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these ...

When NASA’s only major concerns for the OSIRIS-REx launch on Thursday are some fluffy white clouds, you know the mission is in good shape. The mission, led by the University of Arizona’s Lunar ...