A newly discovered asteroid wider than a football pitch could smash into Earth in less than a decade - and carries the highest risk of impact ever recorded by the European Space Agency. The space rock ...

Samples returned from an asteroid contain a surprising abundance of the basic ingredients of life. They were discovered to be ...

The asteroid Bennu contains a lot of organic molecules, including many essential building blocks of life, according to a ...

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

The findings suggest Bennu's parent was once home to pockets of liquid water. When these evaporated, they left behind a ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light on the perennial question of how life began on our planet.

Climate change is increasing the risk of urological diseases, including cancer and kidney conditions, while urological ...

New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.

Discoveries from an asteroid that contain the building blocks of life are making waves in the scientific community, and one ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...

The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...