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

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

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid millions of miles away. The asteroid in question, ...

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.

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 ...