The Bennu asteroid, a space rock not too far from Earth that is rich in carbon, continues to be a trove of information for ...

The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...

It has been just over two years since NASA’s OSIRIS-REx brought back to Earth 121 grams of precious samples collected from ...

"I'm becoming much more optimistic that we may be able to find life beyond Earth, even in our own solar system." ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

Researchers say the latest discovery is particularly significant because tryptophan has never before been detected in ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start ...

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.

NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer ...