Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the “basic building blocks” for life, shedding new light on the perennial question of how life began on our planet. The revelation, ...

"NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of our solar system," the statement reads ...

New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

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NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of space ...

A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years—and pinpoints why.

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

Well, we could be closer to discovering whether there really is alien life out there after researchers discovered a new ...

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

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...