FILE PHOTO: The return capsule containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is seen shortly after touching down in the desert at the ...

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.

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 ...