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

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

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

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

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

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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

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

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

Are we extraterrestrial? Something was recently discovered by NASA on a near-Earth asteroid. They are Organic Molecules On ...

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