As more spacecraft are launched, the risk increases that uncontrolled space debris - those without active guidance - will ...

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

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

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

A team of scientists discovered that the near-Earth asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of minerals and organic molecules, including many that are building blocks of life. But what has the 4.5 ...

In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...