This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...
Andy Weir is the author of The Martian and Artemis, and he has spent a lot of time thinking about traveling to and living on ...
Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world..
NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the ...
NASA's Osiris-Rex mission has uncovered invaluable samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing ancient salty minerals and amino ...
Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...