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

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 ...

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 ...