Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

NASA will provide an update on science results from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, January 29, which delivered a sample of ...

The most politically difficult would be closing down NASA Goddard and NASA Ames and folding in their functions at NASA Marshall. From an organizational standpoint, the idea makes sense.

“They are very intense and take a lot of work,” he said of such transitions, recalling his experience in a previous position as director of science at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

But first it has to be put together, piece by piece, in a cavernous chamber at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The place is known as the Clean Room, or sometimes the ...

"This mission is more than a technological milestone," said Joel Parker, policy lead for positioning, navigation, and timing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

“We have discovered that next step on a pathway to life.” NASA Goddard “These grains of rock have shown that the building blocks of life and the conditions for making them existed on Bennu ...

Geoff Bennett and Daniel Schmidt of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies discussed the implications. Prolonged drought and those powerful Santa Ana winds set up extreme conditions that have ...

The discovery supports the theory that asteroids seeded life on Earth.