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 ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

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

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...

Asteroid’s Approach and Speed Asteroid 2025 CV will come within 2,960,000 miles of Earth. This is more than five times the ...

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

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

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

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...