The first grains of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu are turning out to be far richer than many scientists dared hope, ...

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how ...

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...

Two asteroids are set for safe flybys near Earth, reassuring the public that no threat exists. NASA emphasizes these events ...

"I'm becoming much more optimistic that we may be able to find life beyond Earth, even in our own solar system." ...

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun on orbits that closely match Earth’s and sometimes drift near the planet at ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...