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 ...

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 ...

This new insight into a climate episode in the Neolithic period has led archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen, the National Museum of Denmark and the Museum of Bornholm to view their ...