UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

Located less than 20 light years away, HD 20794d could potentially be one of the most Earth-like planets found so far, ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Some amino acids can be built in two ways that mirror each other, like a pair of right and left hands. Life on Earth uses the ...

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

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

Astronomers who identified HD 20794 d say its proximity to its host star and orbital pattern suggest it could hold water.

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...