The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission discovered molecules vital to life and a history of saltwater on asteroid Bennu. The findings ...

Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security?Regolith Explorer) spacecraft have revealed ...

In this video frame, Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by ...

Scientists analysing samples from asteroid Bennu, delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission , have revealed new ...

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers from the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) and elsewhere have ...

Fossilized vomit is not something paleontologists come across every day, which makes it a very rare and important find.

Located less than 20 light years away, HD 20794d could potentially be one of the most Earth-like planets found so far, ...

A suspected planet that appears well-suited to life has had its existence confirmed – and it’s very much in our neighborhood, ...

Scientists have discovered a so-called “super-Earth” planet, potentially capable of supporting life, orbiting a sun -like ...