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

New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The mission, which launched in Septembe ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission.

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

Prince William visited recent Earthshot Prize finalist NatureMetrics on Jan. 29, and watched its eDNA sampling process at its ...

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

An HTC headset designed to work in space is offsetting the physical and psychological challenges of humans living off-world.

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 ...

The beauty and ferocity of the natural world are on vivid display among the winning images of the latest Close-up ...

Any glimmer of life, light, and levity at this time of year is worth holding onto. January has felt bleak and the news has been ...

Life on Mars is a dream long held – and not just for David Bowie. The idea of settling on the Red Planet has been around for ...