Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...

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

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, holds fascinating clues about the origins of organic molecules in ou.

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are ...

In a study published in AGU Advances, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) used data ...