Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

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

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

WASHINGTON — NASA scientists released their findings on Wednesday after the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft crashed into the asteroid ...

The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...

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

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