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

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, holds fascinating clues about the origins of organic molecules in ou.

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

The Dawn space probe found organic molecules on the dwarf planet around ten years ago. A Max Planck team used AI to ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are ...

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

The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

The scientists also found tiny crystals of rare salt minerals called halite and sylvite within Bennu's dust particles. These ...