With the return of an Asteroid Bennu sample in 2023 as part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, researchers from the University of Arizona have made significant discoveries toward understanding the origins ...

Samples taken from the asteroid Ryugu contain traces of comet particles, which some researchers say could be the "seeds of life." The samples were originally collected from Ryugu by Japan's Hayabusa2 ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid millions of miles away. The asteroid in question, ...