A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
Last year, 2024, was the warmest year on record for the planet, easily breaking the previous record set just a year earlier.
Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
Despite a recent request from Trump, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were already scheduled to return to ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
On NASA's Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under the agency's Artemis campaign, astronauts will take the ...
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...