This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...

The discovery supports the theory that asteroids seeded life on Earth.

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in samples from asteroid Bennu. This discovery offers compelling evidence that all life on Earth, including humans, is likely ...

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

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...

A groundbreaking new study of microbes underground is challenging everything we thought we knew about extreme environments.

For some it is antithetical to put others first. They think it is foolish to deny selfishness. Self-interest was not in Jimmy ...

The studies with Etherna and PCI Biotech demonstrated a preliminary, non-optimized, mRNA formulated in DPX with shelf-life integrity maintained for over the 14 days of the study, with mRNA ...

Dent' in Earth's protective magnetic field growing, splitting Area of concern stretches over the Atlantic from Africa to South America Surface life on the planet is not expected to be affected by the ...