Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

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

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission.

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever collected. These fragments date back 4.5 billion years and contain salts, ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve ...

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...