Nobody knows how life began on Earth, but some tantalizing clues from an asteroid suggest it might not have started here.

The document builds on the academies' decadal survey, outlining recommended missions for NASA's next New Frontiers program.

A spacecraft's sample return capsule was detected entering the Earth's atmosphere using acoustic sensors by a team of ...

But the origins of life on our planet remains one of the great mysteries ... Ali Rogin (voice-over): The Osiris Rex spacecraft, now called Osiris Apex, which collected this extraordinary sample ...

This undated image made available by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ... massive longer-term food insecurity on our planet and climate conditions that are similar ...

known as the red planet, might have gotten its hue from a different mineral than scientists once thought. ESA & MPS for OSIRIS Team - MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / RSSD / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA ...

For decades, scientists believed that Mars’ red color came from hematite, a type of iron oxide that forms under dry ...

could collide with our planet in September 2182. Bennu was the target for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission, which touched down briefly on the space rock in October 2020 to gather over 4 ...

Mars’s signature red hue may not be due to hematite, as previously believed, but rather to ferrihydrite — an iron oxide that requires water to form. Using a combination of spacecraft data and ...