When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday. The findings provide the ...

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

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

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

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

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

In a breathtaking celestial event that captivated thousands, a meteor streaked across the night sky, leaving spectators in awe from Puerto Rico to the Dominican Republic. The dazzling sight, which ...

Namibia holds the keys to cosmic history with its meteorite craters - remnants of the universe's fiery ballet that shaped our ...

Due to a legal loophole, meteorites should, by default, belong to the finder. However, several archaeologists consider the ...