UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

Located less than 20 light years away, HD 20794d could potentially be one of the most Earth-like planets found so far, ...

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

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

Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

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

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...