Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

Asteroid Bennu samples contain life-friendly sugars, a strange "space-gum," and ancient stardust ...

New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues ...

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

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

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.

The Australian company HEO Robotics wants to join efforts to study a rare space event, conducting its own flyby of the ...

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

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

Scientists led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University in Japan found sugars essential for biology on Earth in the Bennu ...

From its first detection using an instrument designed in part by teams based in the Bay, to follow-up orbit analysis ...