NASA's asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals that may have seeded early Earth with life's building blocks.

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

Earth asteroid, gathering dust and rock from its surface, and returning the rare cache to our planet has been one of NASA’s ...

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

The latest discovery, unveiled by the NASA on January 29, came as a bit of a surprise and posed many exciting questions such ...

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...

The wonder of Radium, a glowing treasure discovered by Marie Curie, blinded the world to its perils... and it quickly became ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

PT5, initially identified as a near-Earth asteroid, is believed to be a lunar fragment due to its unique orbit and mineral ...

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

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