NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

REx reveals asteroid Bennu contains life's building blocks, shedding light on Earth's origins and the potential for extraterrestrial life.

Scientists discover asteroid spinning once every 1.88 minutes—the fastest rotation ever found for a large space rock. Five ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

🚨Record-breaking asteroid spotted by NSF–DOE @VRubinObs 🚨 Using early data from the LSST Camera, astronomers have ...

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Some physicists believe that a fifth fundamental force could be the cause of some observational anomalies. A study is investigating ways to closely examine the trajectories of well-documented ...

New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...