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

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

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

Samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the asteroid Bennu had organic molecules and minerals and possibly salty water and other life ingredients.

A 200-foot-wide asteroid found in December has a one-in-83 chance of hitting Earth, according to space agencies.

Discover the surprising geological activity of the Moon's far side. Recent research reveals previously unknown ridge ...