A team of scientists discovered that the near-Earth asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of minerals and organic molecules, including many that are building blocks of life. But what has the 4.5 ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever has, surviving expected temperatures of 1,800 ...

Even with that distinction, the team was shocked by the scale of Juno's latest discovery, which appears to be the most ...

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

Nasa said that the findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest the conditions necessary for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system.

Samples returned from an asteroid contain a surprising abundance of the basic ingredients of life. They were discovered to be ...

NASA's latest asteroid sample from Bennu reveals amino acids and nucleobases, essential for life, sparking questions about ...

"NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of our solar system," the statement reads ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar system, as detailed in a series of papers ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved ...

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

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