Asteroid Bennu's sample delivered a shock: ribose and glucose were found, confirming the widespread presence of life's fundamental building blocks in the early Solar System.

The finding supports the theory that asteroids could have delivered the necessary components for life to begin on Earth and ...

Scientists from Japan have found the last piece of the puzzle that supports the idea of extraterrestrial life such as bacteria and cells.

Is life out there? NASA finds essential sugars on ancient asteroid the size of the Empire State Building - ‘We’re looking at ...

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

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New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

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

We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start life, and researchers have just found the missing ingredient: sugar ...

December's full moon 2025 will be the cold supermoon, set to rise amid the longest nights of the year and start of spectacular Geminids meteor shower.

A world preparing for one interstellar mystery is now confronting the legacy of another mission built for a different kind of threat. A silent shift in our planetary-defense strategy is underway.