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

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

What are the odds that a meteorite would fall on you? According to an astronomer’s estimations, they are 1 in 700,000. Until ...

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

Scientists have discovered essential life-building compounds in dust from asteroid Bennu, supporting the theory that ...

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, holds fascinating clues about the origins of organic molecules in ou.

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

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 ...

"This is a story about the moon as told by asteroid scientists." Earth's distant rocky companion was likely a fragment of the moon blasted into space thousands of years ago, according to a new ...

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