Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid ...

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

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

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

NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of space ...

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

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

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

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.

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...