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Media - Astrobiology Analytical Lab - Sciences and Exploration Directorate - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory - Media

Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory - Media

team stands next to Robert J. Collier trophy in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Etched into Collier Trophy, Aerospace History

team holds award and stands in front of sign that reads Neil Armstrong Space Flight Achievement Award: OSIRIS-REx Flight Team

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Earns Neil Armstrong Space Flight Achievement Award

A top-down view of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head with the lid removed

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission Awarded Collier Trophy

The sample return capsule on the ground in the desert

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission Awarded Robert Goddard Memorial Trophy

grainy radar image with asteroid Apophis circled and dated March 9th 2021

NASA Asteroid Sampling Mission Renamed OSIRIS-APEX for New Journey

Artist's concept of the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule following its landing via parachute in the Utah desert.

NASA Offers Media Interviews in Utah on Asteroid Sample Return

Members of NASA's OSIRIS-REx curation team practice with a mock glove box at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA Prepares for Historic Asteroid Sample Delivery on Sept. 24

Solvent extractions of the Ryugu samples on a clean bench (ISO6, Class 100) inside a clean room (ISO5, Class 1000) performed by Hiroshi Naraoka at Kyushu University in Japan.

First Look at Ryugu Asteroid Sample Reveals it is Organic-Rich

Nebula captured by the James Webb Space Telescope named the Pillars of Creation

NASA Scientists Study Life Origins By Simulating a Cosmic Evolution

Curiosity rover on mars takes a selfie with a graphic pointing out the Sample Analysis Module (SAM)

1st NASA Asteroid Sample Return Mission on Track for Fall '23 Delivery

Curiosity rover on mars takes a selfie with a graphic pointing out the Sample Analysis Module (SAM)

SAM's Top Five Discoveries aboard NASA's Curiosity Rover at Mars

person inspects moon rock in a clear box with yellow rubber gloves

NASA Goddard Scientists Begin Studying 50-year-old Frozen Apollo 17 Samples

Illustration of molecules surrounding an asteroid

Could the Blueprint for Life Have Been Generated in Asteroids?

very small asteroid sample in a tube; sample is circled in red

Asteroid Ryugu Dust Delivered to Earth; NASA Astrobiologists Prepare to Probe It

Key building block for organic molecules discovered in meteorites

Pristine Space Rock Offers NASA Scientists Peek at Evolution of Life’s Building Blocks

Our Favorite Gift? A Box of Apollo Moon Soil

First Detection of Sugars in Meteorites Gives Clues to Origin of Life

Cyanide Compounds Discovered in Meteorites May Hold Clues to the Origin of Life

NASA Goddard Teams to Study Unopened Apollo Samples

Danny Glavin - Searching For Life in Antarctica

NASA Researchers Find "Frozen" Recipe for Extraterrestrial Vitamin

NASA Goddard Instrument Makes First Detection of Organic Matter on Mars

Vitamin B3 Might Have Been Made in Space, Delivered to Earth by Meteorites

New Technique Could Be Used to Search Space Dust for Life's Ingredients

Testing at Goddard: The Astrobiology Analytical Lab

NASA and University Researchers Find a Clue to How Life Turned Left

Meteorites Reveal Another Way to Make Life's Components

NASA Researchers: DNA Building Blocks Can Be Made in Space

Asteroid Served Up "Custom Orders" of Life's Ingredients

More Asteroids Could Have Made Life's Ingredients

Building Blocks of Life Created in "Impossible" Place

Goddard Scientist's Breakthrough Given Ticket to Mars

NASA Researchers Make First Discovery of Life's Building Block in Comet

NASA Scientists Find Clues to a Secret of Life

Volcanoes May Have Provided Sparks and Chemistry for First Life

Study: Life's Raw Material Came from Space

Comets as Toolkits for Jump-starting Life