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

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission.

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

NASA reaffirms its plan with SpaceX to return two astronauts from the ISS, following President Trump's remarks. Another ...

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...

For months, NASA was unable to open the sample container from the Osiris-Rex asteroid probe. It was found to contain over 51 ...