Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

NASA successfully brought the samples to Earth’s surface and—after some difficulties ... similar to the samples collected from asteroid Ryugu during the Hayabusa2 mission.

Although meteorites can bring fragments of asteroids directly to the surface of our planet in modern times ... Hayabusa2 mission that in 2020 brought fragments of a larger asteroid called Ryugu to ...

This enabled the team to study features on the sample's surface with a resolution of one-hundredth ... scientists have found these nucleobases on a distant asteroid. In 2023, a sample taken from the ...

“Understanding these samples is important, since they represent the types of materials that were likely seeded on the surface of the ... samples from the asteroid Ryugu, building up our ...