REx sample return capsule contained rock from the asteroid Bennu. NASA/Keegan Barber Mary Magnuson, Collecting asteroid samples China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this ...

Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

Recently two new observatories — NASA's SPHEREx and the Vera C Rubin Observatory — released their first images.

Life on Earth relies on molecular building blocks to make DNA and proteins. Scientists have long wondered how prevalent these precursors were at the birth of our solar system. A sample of dust and ...

Studies of rocks and dust collected from Bennu, an asteroid orbiting Earth, have revealed clues about how life may have first formed on Earth. A NASA mission collected the sample and brought it ...

Pristine samples of asteroid Bennu have revealed something entirely unexpected — not only does the asteroid contain the chemical building blocks of life, but it also originated from an ancient, ...

NASA's asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals that may have seeded early Earth with life's building blocks.

Are we all aliens? NASA asteroid samples connect Earth to ancient water world Sixty labs around the world are analyzing dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.