"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 ...

Is life out there? NASA finds essential sugars on ancient asteroid the size of the Empire State Building - ‘We’re looking at ...

It's not often that a deep-space robotic explorer swings back by its home planet, but NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission did just ...

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

New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues to how life developed in our neck of the cosmos, including the sugars ...

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

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

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

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

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