Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

Asteroid Bennu’s dust reveals amino acid precursors and ancient water traces, fueling hopes that Saturn’s moon Enceladus and other icy worlds might harbor life.

It’s also possible that they exist on other worlds in our solar system, including ocean worlds such as Saturn’s icy moon ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

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, ...

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...

The papers describe briny residue found in the samples, which differs from the composition of Earth ... including Saturn’s moon Enceladus and the dwarf planet Ceres. Enceladus is an exciting ...

Any differences from the CI chondrite composition would have happened through the same ... The Cassini mission measured the same mineral in plumes on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. We also learned that ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...