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

Juliet Ugbede Akoh: An example of a Rock (aggregates of minerals), made up of Quartz, Amphibole, Pink Potassium Feldspar, and White Plagioclase Feldspar Focus on chemistry, physics, geography, biology ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...

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

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle towards Earth. Meteorites that fall into ... a member of Fireballs Aotearoa (a citizen science group tracking meteorites), the meteorite has ...

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...