NASA scientists revealed the initial findings of the first U.S. asteroid sample mission, including carbon and water-based clay materials, from the Johnson Space Center in Houston Wednesday morning.
The latest findings from NASA's University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission support scientists' theory that asteroids rich in carbon and water may have delivered the essential building blocks of life and made Earth habitable.
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This fall, NASA is all about asteroids. OSIRIS-REx's brought samples from Bennu; Psyche will visit a space rock; and the Lucy spacecraft will fly by an asteroid.
This fall, NASA marks milestones in three different missions that explore unanswered questions about the process that made Earth, the stuff that makes the solar system and how we might save ourselves should a much larger space rock come hurtling our way.