A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

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

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Ibrahim Cissé spent hours as a child taking apart and trying to rebuild electronics. Other times, he would reenact NASA space shuttle liftoffs, tipping a chair backward onto the floor and then ...

Average telomere length in all Inspiration4 civilian crew members increased during spaceflight, similar to observations from the NASA Twins Study. Also, RNA-seq data revealed significantly ...