A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Last year, 2024, was the warmest year on record for the planet, easily breaking the previous record set just a year earlier.

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

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

Despite a recent request from Trump, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were already scheduled to return to ...

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

On NASA's Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under the agency's Artemis campaign, astronauts will take the ...

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 appears to be retaining existing plans to return astronauts from the International Space Station after calls to bring ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...