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

The search for water on the Moon has captivated scientists for decades. Beyond its implications for understanding planetary ...

There’s certainly nothing living on the asteroid Bennu, an airless, 1,614-ft. rubble pile orbiting the sun about 40.2 million ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a spacecraft from the asteroid Bennu. Here's what they found inside and what it could tell us about the origin of life on Earth.

With the OSIRIS-REx space probe, the NASA space agency succeeded in collecting some material from the surface of asteroid ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

The minerals McCoy’s team identified paint a picture of one possible environment present on rocky celestial bodies 4.5 billion years ago. The presence of evaporites means that sodium-rich water once ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...