In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...

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

The asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, was detected by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System on Dec. 27, 2024.

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

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

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

In a triumph for NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, new findings suggest that tiny bits of rock retrieved from the ...

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

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...