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

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

Astronomers now suggest that the small celestial body, initially dubbed Earths “mini-moon” 2024 PT5, might be a lunar ...

Kevin Righter started at University of Rochester last year, but before that he worked on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect ...

A fossil hunter found a lump of prehistoric vomit roughly dated to the time of the mass extinction that wiped out the ...

High solar activity levels have historically been linked to warmer temperatures, on average, across Earth, according to the Farmer's Almanac.

Two science teams pored over samples from the B-type asteroid Bennu, finding chemicals linked to the beginnings of life and ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

The building blocks of life have been found on an alien asteroid, scientists have said. Samples taken by Nasa from the ...

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...