Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life, but also the salty remains of an ...

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick shared this amazing time-lapse captured from the International Space Station. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA / Matthew Dominick | edited by Steve Spaleta Mu ...

The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx brought back to Earth 121 grams of material from asteroid Bennu. This is the largest sample ever collected ...

Analyzing a sample from an asteroid named Bennu reveals the chemicals necessary to form DNA and RNA.

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

In a breathtaking celestial event that captivated thousands, a meteor streaked across the night sky, leaving spectators in awe from Puerto Rico to the Dominican Republic. The dazzling sight, which ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.

One Alabama woman was rudely awoken from a nap in 1954 when a meteorite came through her roof and hit her, leaving a big bruise.