NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission set out to grab a small scoop of rock from asteroid Bennu and bring it home. Instead, it delivered ...

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 ...

I’ve covered a few times how Destiny 2 is positively dumping loot on players now, something I suggested in the stingy Edge of Fate/Portal days, but things have escalated to a kind of wild degree. The ...

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 ...