This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

A new study published January 29 in Nature describes an unexpected discovery in the material delivered by OSIRIS-REx: residues of compounds left over by the evaporation of liquid water. Tim McCoy ...

"That's the kind of environment that could have been essential to the steps that lead from elements to life,” said the Smithsonian Institution’s Tim McCoy ... NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft ...

Tim McCoy, co-lead author of the Nature study and ... The sample was collected from Bennu in October 2020 by a NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx, or Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource ...

Terrence McCoy is The Washington Post's Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief. He has twice won the George Polk Award and was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2023. He served in the Peace Corps in ...

After hours: February 6 at 5:43:23 PM EST Loading Chart for REX ...

Three years earlier NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft had grabbed these samples ... preserved in the cold of space. Tim McCoy, co-lead author of the Nature study and a meteorite expert at the ...

Tim Ellis is a London-based freelancer who reports on breaking news and hot topics in tennis and cricket. He recently interviewed the All England Club on their controversial plans to expand ...