The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life in the solar system.

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar ...

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...

Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's ...

what NASA found in their first analysis of the Bennu sample indicated that water had once flowed through the asteroid. Advert Subsequent research led by Sara Russell of the Natural History Museum ...

I'm exploring VR artwork created by Ashley Zelinskie. Titled Twin Quasar, it's located inside the Whitney Museum of American Art's virtual landscape. I'll admit that I'm at first skeptical of any ...