When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

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This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.

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

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.

In a triumph for NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, new findings suggest that tiny bits of rock retrieved from the ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...