Tomorrow night is the longest night of the year with the December solstice that officially marks the beginning of the season ...

The nitrogen in the gum was found to be in nitrogen heterocycles, which are the building blocks of nucleobases in DNA and RNA ...

Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how life on Earth got started. The space agency has reportedly discovered ...

Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu are continuing to shed light on the origins of the solar system. Scientists have been studying the samples since NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft carried them back to ...

A new analysis of samples delivered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft from asteroid Bennu has revealed the ...

Asteroid Bennu, which passes near the Earth roughly every six years, contains tryptophan, one of the most complex amino acids essential for life, scientists have confirmed. This discovery comes from ...

"Bennu is a time capsule of the material that was throughout the solar system." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists ...

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, three new studies of the asteroid's sample materials show. When you purchase ...

SwRI scientists reviewed spectral data of sample material taken from near-Earth asteroids Ryugu and Bennu (pictured above) and compared them with spectral data of main belt asteroid Polana from the ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles. As wide as The Eiffel Tower is tall, the asteroid Bennu is a potentially ...