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, ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

It’s a veritable hand of god, looming in orbit near our planet, capable of destroying life as we know it. Lauretta’s not wrong, of course — nor does this villainous portrait of Bennu come as ...