The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

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

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

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission.

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

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