Seeing the invisible, that’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid and ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

Asteroid Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old space rock, may hold clues to Earth's origins. With traces of water, amino acids, and organic materials, it could unlock the mystery of life's beginnings.

Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin have changed significantly. This discovery comes from a study led by the (SwRI ...

A billion-dollar spacecraft, a daring deep-space mission, and one of humanity’s biggest questions: Where did we come from? NASA’s OSIRIS-REx set out to collect a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu, a ...

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The asteroid harbors traces of ancient briny water, salty minerals, and even ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar system. These findings can now provide information into the potential origins of ...