A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped ...

For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the ...

A team studying asteroids using CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) proton beam has found a few complications with the idea ...

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an ...

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu and ...

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

Scientists have found mysterious space gum vital to creating life in an asteroid sample. Sugars essential for biology have been discovered in a gum-like substance in fragments from the Bennu ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo missions—and they’re shaking up the search for life beyond Earth. The OSIRIS-REx ...

Imagine a time when Earth was a molten, volcanic wasteland, heavily bombarded by colossal asteroids. We’ve long feared these cosmic impacts as destroyers of life, but what if they were the key to our ...

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.