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 discovered molecules vital to life and a history of saltwater on asteroid Bennu. The findings ...

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

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...

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 ...

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.

Was 2020’s ‘Don’t Look Up’ accurate? Find out what NASA revealed about an asteroid that will approach Earth in 2032.

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 ...