It's been a long, long time since Earth has been smacked by a large asteroid, but that doesn't mean we're in the clear. Space ...
An asteroid strike could cool the planet's climate, harm crops, and disrupt food supply, but it may also increase plankton ...
Scientists recently discovered that San Bernardino County's Searles Lake contains minerals found in outer space.
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
The Bennu samples revealed magnetite (iron oxide) crystals less than 1 micrometer in size. The individual crystals ...
A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, ...