NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample ...

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...

NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system.

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

Some amino acids can be built in two ways that mirror each other, like a pair of right and left hands. Life on Earth uses the ...

Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...

In research papers published Wednesday in the journals Nature and Nature Astronomy, scientists from NASA and other ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission discovered molecules vital to life and a history of saltwater on asteroid Bennu. The findings ...