The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...

It has been just over two years since NASA’s OSIRIS-REx brought back to Earth 121 grams of precious samples collected from ...

A group of researchers from Japan and the United States have detected six types of sugar in rock and dust samples from an asteroid that could show ingredients for life existed outside Earth.

GREENBELT, Md. -- A team of international scientists says they've found sugars in meteorites that could be essential to the creation of life. The team, which included scientists from NASA and other ...

Researchers say the latest discovery is particularly significant because tryptophan has never before been detected in ...

We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start ...

Jose Aponte, an astrochemist in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and co-author of ...

The finding supports the theory that asteroids could have delivered the necessary components for life to begin on Earth and ...

NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...