Analyzing a sample from an asteroid named Bennu reveals the chemicals necessary to form DNA and RNA.

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

It's a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories each month. In the past, ...

The study of 'starquakes' (like earthquakes, but in stars) promises to give us important new insights into the properties of neutron stars (the ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

We were able to use the unit for some basic astronomy. While looking at the moon on a clear night, we could see the waxing crescent phase in some detail. Other views at this level of magnification ...

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present ...

The mere mention of Leonardo da Vinci evokes genius. We know him as a polymath whose interests spanned astronomy, geology, ...