Smaller than a micron are some of the oldest solids ever subject to laboratory study and they are imprisoned in one rock which was picked up in the Moroccan desert. The meteorite called Chwichiya 002, ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft didn’t just collect rocks from asteroid Bennu — it brought back samples that are rewriting our ...

Samples of asteroids contain a range of organic molecules. Do asteroids raining down on Earth explain how life started on ...

The complex precursors to biological molecules can form spontaneously in interstellar space, according to a lab experiment ...

A UA-led telescope atop of Mount Graham has captured the first glimpse of an asteroid-bound spacecraft since its launch in September 2016. The Large Binocular Telescope Observatory, an international ...

Her baby couldn’t make it home for the holidays, but at least Dani Mendoza DellaGiustina had some out-of-this-world snapshots to keep herself warm. DellaGiustina is principal investigator for NASA’s ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Scientists have discovered six different sugars in samples collected from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, including glucose and ribose that are fundamental for ...

It’s been hypothesized for decades that life on Earth may not have been as “homegrown” as one might think and now, we’re looking above and hundreds of thousands of miles out for more answers. An ...

NASA revealed that scientists discovered sugars that are “essential” to life and a “gum-like” substance on the space rock Bennu NASA/Goddard/University of ...

The asteroid, named Bennu, contains sugars necessary for the development of life as well as a “gum-like” substance never before found on any space rock Samples of Bennu were first delivered to earth ...

It's been two years since the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft returned home with exactly 4.3 ounces (121.6 grams) of ...