NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

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

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.

This decision forced some crew shuffling; NASA had to take two astronauts off the originally four-person Crew-9 launch to ...

Despite the statement from President Trump, NASA had already scheduled the astronauts' return for late March or April.

An HTC headset designed to work in space is offsetting the physical and psychological challenges of humans living off-world.

SpaceX is scheduled to bring home two astronauts who have been on the International Space Station since June. Mr. Musk said President Trump had asked for that to occur “as soon as possible.” ...

Exciting advances in space exploration are underway as NASA tests revolutionary shape memory alloy (SMA) spring tires ...

Pandora, a small satellite mission poised to provide in-depth study of at least 20 known planets orbiting distant stars to ...

For nearly half a century, NASA has been talking an awfully good game about its much-heralded Mars Sample Return (MSR) project. As long ago as 1978, the space agency requested funding to develop a ...