Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

A live cockroach, water not meeting drinking standards and moistening fingers with saliva before handling food were other ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

Asteroid Bennu’s dust reveals amino acid precursors and ancient water traces, fueling hopes that Saturn’s moon Enceladus and other icy worlds might harbor life.

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but the wait is proving to be worth it. A new study published January 29 in ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate, and ammonia. Together, ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

24, 2023, we got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could have formed ... Bright deposits on the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt, contain ...

(AP) — Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world ... dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid ...

Mouse droppings were found in a Modesto church and grime was accumulated in multiple restaurants when inspectors visited ...

Two science teams pored over samples from the B-type asteroid Bennu, finding chemicals linked to the beginnings of life and brine that is of interest for future space exploration.