While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.
ANDES stands for ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph. AndES is a high-resolution instrument that can search for ...
One lucky East Lancashire stargazer caught a glimpse of the rare celestial phenomenon - the planetary alignment.
Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.
When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...
After graduating from UVA in 2013 and completing her doctorate in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 2019, ...
Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...
Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.