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, ...

A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and ...

Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

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

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...