NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

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 delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...

increasing the odds life could have formed on other planets and moons, according to a NASA statement. In Graphics: How Bennu ...

"increasing the odds" that life may have formed on other planets or moons, said NASA. “NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

In 2016, NASA launched OSIRIS-REx ... might have had more opportunity to lead to life on other icy worlds. Ceres, a 580-mile-wide dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, still has brine sloshing ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

The scientists also found traces of calcite, halite, sylvite and other minerals capable of supporting life. The NASA scientists are hoping to find the origins of life in the solar system and on ...

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link NASA probed an asteroid and found an ancient repository of ingredients for life. The findings, published in two papers in the journals Nature ...

increasing the odds life could have formed on other planets and moons, according to a NASA statement. In Graphics: How Bennu samples were retrieved. “We now know from Bennu that the raw ...