Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

"I'm becoming much more optimistic that we may be able to find life beyond Earth, even in our own solar system." ...

NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

Ingredients essential to kick-start life have been discovered in samples collected from the asteroid Bennu. NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

“Our findings expand the evidence that prebiotic organic molecules can form within primitive accreting planetary bodies and ...

NASA’s Bennu samples have revealed life-linked sugars, a mysterious gum-like substance and even grains of ancient stardust.

For the first time, tryptophan, which is an essential amino acid, has been identified in extraterrestrial material.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...