Two landers from a private US company will be part of an armada to asteroid Apophis when it flies past Earth in 2029. Apophis ...

A rock measuring 900 meters is on a journey through our solar system, providing what is arguably one of the strongest pieces ...

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged ...

JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA.

TOKYO -- All five nucleobases that make up DNA and RNA have been found in rock samples that Japan's Hayabusa2 space probe brought back from the Ryugu ･･･ ...

Results from Ryugu suggest the the Solar System produced the building blocks of life Scientists have found that all five of the substances that make up DNA and RNA in samples from Ryugu, the asteroid ...

A new study adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests asteroid impacts played a critical role in the emergence of life ...

Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). A tiny stash of asteroid dust may help answer one of science’s oldest questions: how much of life’s chemistry began in space? In a groundbreaking study ...

Don't worry, it's not hurtling towards us.

A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases – the molecular “letters” of life – have been detected in samples from ...

All five of the canonical nucleobases – the underpinnings of DNA, RNA and life on Earth – have been found in samples from the asteroid Ryugu ...