A small, icy visitor from beyond the solar system is giving scientists an unusually close look at the chemistry that may help ...

NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Dr. Nicola Fox explains an intriguing rock that the ...

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

The Bennu asteroid, a space rock not too far from Earth that is rich in carbon, continues to be a trove of information for ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array detected significant amounts of methanol and hydrogen cyanide in ...

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

"I'm becoming much more optimistic that we may be able to find life beyond Earth, even in our own solar system." ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a rocky area nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” on July 18, 2024, showing black “poppy seed” and larger “leopard spot” features. Researchers say a sample ...

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

NASA says it’s now closer than ever to “discovering life on Mars” thanks to a key sample obtained by its Perseverance rover. On Wednesday (Sept. 10), the agency detailed its hopes for the sample, ...