Sergio McKenzie, a 25-year IT veteran, has been appointed as chief information officer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, ...

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

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

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

While they continue mapping the minerals in each grain, NASA's Goddard team plans to look for sugars that would be crucial to forming nucleotides. McCoy's team also hopes to find bits of water ...

“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 ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu, which landed in Utah's west desert in September 2023, could suggest rocks carrying an ...

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

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever has, surviving expected temperatures of 1,800 ...

Planes that fly faster than the speed of sound create thunderous supersonic booms. But with NASA's X-59 plane, that could change. The space agency plans for the aircraft's first flight in 2025 ...