The discovery of the nucleobase uracil is a big step forward for astrobiology. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One of the four ...

Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission brought back samples from the asteroid Ryugu in December 2020, and ever since, they have been studied in laboratories across the globe, including at NASA. Last year, ...

When the OSIRIS-REx mission touched down in Utah with a sample from the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, Bennu, scientists who opened the hatch gave an audible gasp when they saw what was inside. Now, ...

Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu have uncovered molecules that are essential for life on our planet, announced ...

There’s certainly nothing living on the asteroid Bennu, an airless, 1,614-ft. rubble pile orbiting the sun about 40.2 million miles from Earth. But that doesn’t mean that Bennu hasn’t all at once ...

(CNN) — Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, adding evidence to the idea that asteroids ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been in orbit of the asteroid Bennu since late 2018, and it's almost time for the main event: collecting a sample from the surface. Researchers have used the last few ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A recent discovery indicates that the chemical building blocks necessary for life to form on Earth were actually "extraterrestrial in origin," according to scientists. A pair of ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific ...