New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

"I'm becoming much more optimistic that we may be able to find life beyond Earth, even in our own solar system." ...

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NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

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Scientists led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University in Japan found sugars essential for biology on Earth in the Bennu ...

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

On March 21, 2021, an object the size of the Empire State Building—traveling at 77,000 miles per hour—passed within 1.25 ...

These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 ...

The contaminated images could impact various scientific studies, including asteroid detection and galaxy observations.