The most significant molecules found are ethylene glycol and glyconitrize—both of which are ingredients for compounds in DNA ...

THE key ingredients for life may be scattered across the universe in more places than first thought, according to a new study ...

One of the most exciting places to study resilient microbes, that survive without sunlight, is Europa, a moon of Jupiter, ...

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do that, scientists need untouched samples—material that hasn’t been ...

This raises questions about how and why life on Earth "turned left" in its amino acid preference. NASA launched the OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu in 2016 to gain insights into the early ...

Why we, so far, only see life on Earth and not elsewhere, that’s the truly tantalizing question.” For more information on the OSIRIS-REx mission, visit this link. More from 6 News: ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost right from the start. "That's ...

One of these lumps became the asteroid Bennu whose minerals, recently returned to Earth by the US robot space probe OSIRIS-REx, have now been found to contain rich levels of complex chemicals that are ...

NASA successfully brought the samples to Earth’s surface and—after some difficulties — opened the canister containing the rocky bits. An artist’s impression of OSIRIS-REx digging into Bennu.

In that time, chemical reactions with Earth’s atmosphere can alter meteorites even more. By traveling to Bennu, NASA researchers reasoned, a probe could gather pristine material.