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.
Want to Help NASA Make Discoveries? 25 New Citizen Science Projects Await
NASA is fueling an exciting future for citizen science by funding 25 new projects across diverse fields, from astrophysics to ...
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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Why NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory could be the ultimate exoplanet hunter
HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...
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 ...
James Webb Telescope unveils awe of the heavens
Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine select star-forming areas in the Extreme Outer Galaxy in near- ...
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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 ...
Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
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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NASA’s asteroid Bennu sample reveals mix of life’s ingredients
Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft have revealed ...
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Tiny tube experiments simulate solar system’s only moon with an atmosphere
Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...
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Lurking Inside an Asteroid: Life’s Ingredients
But a pinch of grit from a distant asteroid collected by a NASA spacecraft holds hints that our planet may not be so special. A team of researchers reported in the journal Nature on Wednesday that ...