NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission discovered molecules vital to life and a history of saltwater on asteroid Bennu. The findings ...

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.

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

NASA Headquarters, Washington, told reporters during a Jan. 29 press conference. "This, of course, increases the odds that ...

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 ...

"So this, of course, increases the odds that life could have formed on other planets," she said. A mission called OSIRIS-REx landed on an asteroid named Bennu in 2020, jammed its arm into the rock's ...

The building blocks of life could have been ... comb through data gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, scientists have conducted a detailed scan of the dwarf planet Ceres to map regions rich ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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

This is telling us that not just the water, but some of the building blocks of life actually were seeded on the Earth and other planets ... waterlogged dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid belt.