Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

Partly cloudy. Medium chance of showers. The chance of a thunderstorm in the morning and afternoon, possibly severe. Winds west to southwesterly 20 to 30 km/h turning south to southeasterly 25 to 40 ...

A ridge is building along the south coast and should dominate the weather pattern for most of the week. A low pressure trough will extend down the west coast from Tuesday. Southerly 15 to 25 knots, ...