A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago. Although meteorites on Earth ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

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

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...

The sample from Bennu was parachuted back to Earth in 2023 and shared among teams of researchers. Now two new papers, published in Nature and Nature Astronomy, reveal some of the findings from those ...

Past psychology research suggests that some people are more prone than others to take risks in uncertain situations, such as ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

Lucknow: A Sitapur court on Friday directed Congress MP from Sitapur, Rakesh Rathore, to provide his voice sample in a case ...