NASA scientists want to solve a mystery: Why did life "turn left?"
When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...
The odds of alien life just increased, NASA says after discovering DNA ingredients on an asteroid
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
Artemis team leaders say major changes under Trump could mean more delays
NASA's commercial partners have mounted a vigorous defense of the Artemis moon mission plans amid the specter of changes from ...
Push to move NASA HQ to Florida still the buzz among space community
The idea floated earlier this month by Gov. Ron DeSantis that NASA might consider moving its headquarters from Washington to ...
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NASA’s InSight Finds Marsquakes From Meteoroids Go Deeper Than Expected
With help from AI, scientists discovered a fresh crater made by an impact that shook material as deep as the Red Planet’s ...
A NASA spacecraft scooped rubble from an asteroid. Here's what was inside
Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a NASA spacecraft from an asteroid. In it, they've found ...
NASA Reveals Shocking Human Impact on Earth’s Water Cycle
NASA scientists have uncovered significant changes in the global water cycle over the past two decades, largely driven by ...
Scientists find traces of life’s building blocks in historic asteroid samples
It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...
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Mars was hot then cold then hot again. Could life have really survived there?
"It's been such a puzzle that there was liquid water on Mars, because Mars is further from the sun, and also, the sun was ...
NASA Uncovers Life’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu’s Pristine Sample
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...
Breakthrough as NASA discovers planet 6 times as big as Earth that could be habitable
Scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new planet which is six times as large as the Earth and could host alien life.
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U of R professor part of NASA team that discovered building blocks of life on asteroid
Twenty years ago, Kevin Righter, a UR professor and part of the NASA OSIRIS-REx team, was involved in a mission ... NASA and two new publications reveal that the asteroid’s contents contain ...