New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues ...

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

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

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

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

NASA’s Bennu samples have revealed life-linked sugars, a mysterious gum-like substance and even grains of ancient stardust.

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

Bennu asteroid samples returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reveal life's building blocks, including sugars like ribose and ...

Scientists led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University in Japan found sugars essential for biology on Earth in the Bennu ...

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

It wasn’t science fiction — it was humanity’s first attempt to stop a cosmic killer. NASA’s DART mission smashed into an ...

Asteroid 2025 VP1 is hurtling through space at more than 18,300 miles per hour, the space agency has reported.