If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

Based on their analysis, the team found that a type of asteroid rich in the minerals olivine and spinel could serve as an ...

When Kate Middleton handled a small piece of rock at London’s Natural History Museum she became one of the few people on ...

REx reveals asteroid Bennu contains life's building blocks, shedding light on Earth's origins and the potential for extraterrestrial life.

When scientists finally cracked open the capsule from asteroid Bennu, they expected carbon, water-bearing minerals, and maybe ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to exist on Bennu, a small asteroid that swings by our planet about every six ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

One meteorite may hold the answers space agencies have been chasing, answers that could unlock mining in deep space.

Instead of searching for a single molecule or structure that proves the presence of biology, researchers attempted to classify how likely mixtures of compounds preserved in rocks and meteorites were ...

A meteorite was spotted over northern Michigan’s sky on Sunday, according to a company that chases storms and follows the weather. The fireball was seen over Michigan at about 6 p.m., Michigan Storm ...