According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission successfully touched down on asteroid Bennu when it was 207 million ... considers life as a self-sustaining chemical system capable of processing information and ...

Just as the simplest scientific formula can be the ... s Building Blocks Inside an Asteroid: Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

Life on Earth relies on molecular building blocks to make DNA and proteins. Scientists have long wondered how prevalent these precursors were at the birth of our solar system. A sample of dust and ...

WASHINGTON — The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making ... that Bennu's samples bore some of the chemical building blocks of life, strong evidence ...