When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. According to the study in Nature Astronom y, the team also found 14 of the 20 ...

Video Astronomers reckon a 220-million-kilogram asteroid is going to swing by Earth in 2032 with a 1-in-100 chance of hitting ...

Japan spacecraft leaves asteroid to head home Blast-off for Nasa mission to detect life on Mars Dinosaur asteroid's trajectory was 'perfect storm' Osiris-Rex touched down on Tuesday on 500m-wide ...

Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining samples taken from the asteroid Bennu, which shed light on how widely the ...

Officials behind the Osiris-Rex probe, which landed on Bennu earlier this week, were worried after a rock wedged open the door of a container. This meant that samples were spilling out from the craft.

The OSIRIS-REx mission surpassed expectations by not ... classification as a potentially hazardous asteroid. Its projected trajectory brings it dangerously close to Earth in the future ...