When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

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

NASA reaffirms its plan with SpaceX to return two astronauts from the ISS, following President Trump's remarks. Another ...

Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...

These environments are like places that we think life could've started on early Earth.' ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

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

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals allowed the elemental ingredients of life to intermingle.

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

NASA is set to collaborate with SpaceX to return astronauts from the ISS amidst plans for further cosmic exploration. Samples ...