Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

The findings shed light on how proteins like collagen may survive for millions of years within dinosaur bones.

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

Scientists have discovered traces of organic compounds in asteroid samples brought back by NASA, a finding that could suggest ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

Soil samples collected from the asteroid Ryugu by Japan's Hayabusa 2 space probe contain organic substances, a discovery that will likely provide clues to the origin of life on Earth, according to ...

Gel permeation chromatography, three-dimensional excitation-emission matrix fluorescence spectroscopy, and UV-visible ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...