When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

A team of scientists using data from two NASA telescopes revealed that there ... While black holes are famous for gobbling up matter from their immediate surroundings, they are also capable ...

In a recently published paper, NASA scientists use nearly 20 years of observations to show that the global water cycle is shifting in unprecedented ways. The majority of those shifts are driven by ...

The next stop for the material was the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, which distributed samples to researchers across the globe. Ever since, scientists have been fussing over every pebble ...

TEMPLE, Texas — New samples from an asteroid could suggest that the conditions for life are not unique to Earth, according to NASA. NASA stated that studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu ...

“The OSIRIS-REx mission is already rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the ingredients thought to be necessary for the emergence of life in our solar system,” Nicky Fox, the associate ...

In a recently published paper, NASA scientists use nearly 20 years of observations to show that the global water cycle is shifting in unprecedented ways. The majority of those shifts are driven by ...

In 2023, scientists announced preliminary findings, including traces of carbon and water locked up in clay minerals. The soil and rock from Bennu are the first samples NASA has collected and ...