NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission. It's a win for alien life.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission discovered molecules vital to life and a history of saltwater on asteroid Bennu. The findings suggest essential conditions for life were present across the early solar system ...

His concept was for a space telescope dedicated to detecting extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, which orbit stars other than ... Is there life on Jupiter’s moon Europa? NASA launches mission ...

NASA Headquarters, Washington, told reporters during a Jan. 29 press conference. "This, of course, increases the odds that life could have formed on other planets." There were several other reveals ...

Now, a mission by NASA to collect a piece of ancient ... but some of the building blocks of life actually were seeded onto Earth and other planets. It wouldn't have been limited to just Earth.

NASA'S Pandora mission has moved one ... A small satellite, dubbed Pandora, will conclude whether 20 other planets is capable of creating alien life. It is aiming to examine each exoplanet a ...

increasing the odds life could have formed on other planets and moons, according to NASA. "NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of ...

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" 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 ...

Pandora will lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, as so many other satellites have ... near-infrared spectra of the transiting planet," NASA officials said in Monday's statement.