The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...
The discovery supports the theory that asteroids seeded life on Earth.
NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...
Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...
Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission collected samples from asteroid Bennu. Scientists have found amino acids, ammonia and other molecules essential to life on Earth.
In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...
Did you know that NASA conducts ground-breaking research in space on materials like metals, foams, and crystals? This ...