The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

NASA's asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals that may have seeded early Earth with life's building blocks.

The minerals McCoy’s team identified paint a picture of one possible environment present on rocky celestial bodies 4.5 ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...

Nature is capable of the most mysterious, surreal, stunning, and powerful things. The only thing we can do as humans is to ...