So, not only did the asteroid carry the basic elements for life, it also had a watery environment to help synthesize them into complex ingredients — like the DNA nucleobases that the NASA team ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

That "cell-free DNA" can be produced because of stress, NASA said, which, when you think about it, makes sense. Scott Kelly probably dealt with a lot of stress during his time in space ...

The next available launch opportunity is no earlier than 7:26 pm EDT on Thursday, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy ...

Meanwhile, someone with the same face, body, and DNA was back on Earth: his identical twin, Mark Kelly. Scott and Mark are the only twin NASA astronauts in history. Separated by 250 miles of space ...

What is life? This is the typical big question scientists have been trying to answer for millenniums. But this time, the big ...

As a NASA astronaut, Williams' salary falls under the US government's General Schedule (GS) pay scale grade, specifically grades GS-13 through GS-15. According to available data, GS-13 astronauts can ...

At the time of publication, there is a 2.3 percent chance of an asteroid — called 2024 YR4 — hitting the planet in 2032, according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. Less than a ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission found ingredients for DNA and RNA on the asteroid Bennu. The discovery shows asteroids could seed planets with the precursors for life. It's also more evidence that life ...