Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are ...

Our solar system contains planets, dwarf planets, asteroids ... crucial building blocks of life. The chemistry that produced them might be going on today on the ice moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Organic molecules are among the necessary inventory of life-friendly worlds. On Earth, the compounds of carbon, hydrogen and – in smaller quantities – ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the ...

The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...

The latest discovery, unveiled by the NASA on January 29, came as a bit of a surprise and posed many exciting questions such ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...