The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus. This image is captured by Hubble Space Telescope. V838 Monocerotis is a cataclysmic binary star in the ...

The DNA ingredients discovered on the asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission suggest that life-building blocks exist ...

The latest discovery, unveiled by the NASA on January 29, came as a bit of a surprise and posed many exciting questions such ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

This marked Williams' ninth spacewalk and Wilmore's fifth. With this latest achievement, Williams now holds a total of 62 hours and 6 minutes of spacewalk time, placing her fourth on NASA's all-time ...

Former Hawaii lawmaker Suzanne Chun Oakland remembers arriving at school one morning in 1977 to an eerie buzz. The ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing 14 of the 20 essential amino acids for life on Earth, along wit ...

The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar ...

Scientists say the “building blocks for life” have been found inside the rubble of a 500-metre-wide asteroid in a breakthrough study.

Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's ...

Nasa said that the findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest the conditions necessary for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system.

Samples returned from an asteroid contain a surprising abundance of the basic ingredients of life. They were discovered to be ...