Press Releases

NASA Goddard Scientists Begin Studying 50-year-old Frozen Apollo 17 Samples

Could the Blueprint for Life Have Been Generated in Asteroids?

Asteroid Ryugu Dust Delivered to Earth; NASA Astrobiologists Prepare to Probe It

Key building block for organic molecules discovered in meteorites

Pristine Space Rock Offers NASA Scientists Peek at Evolution of Life’s Building Blocks

Our Favorite Gift? A Box of Apollo Moon Soil

First Detection of Sugars in Meteorites Gives Clues to Origin of Life

Cyanide Compounds Discovered in Meteorites May Hold Clues to the Origin of Life

NASA Goddard Teams to Study Unopened Apollo Samples

Danny Glavin - Searching For Life in Antarctica

NASA Researchers Find "Frozen" Recipe for Extraterrestrial Vitamin

NASA Goddard Instrument Makes First Detection of Organic Matter on Mars

Stanley Miller’s Forgotten Experiments, Analyzed

Vitamin B3 Might Have Been Made in Space, Delivered to Earth by Meteorites

New Technique Could Be Used to Search Space Dust for Life's Ingredients

Testing at Goddard: The Astrobiology Analytical Lab

NASA and University Researchers Find a Clue to How Life Turned Left

Meteorites Reveal Another Way to Make Life's Components

NASA Researchers: DNA Building Blocks Can Be Made in Space

Asteroid Served Up "Custom Orders" of Life's Ingredients

More Asteroids Could Have Made Life's Ingredients

Building Blocks of Life Created in "Impossible" Place

Goddard Scientist's Breakthrough Given Ticket to Mars

NASA Researchers Make First Discovery of Life's Building Block in Comet

NASA Scientists Find Clues to a Secret of Life

Volcanoes May Have Provided Sparks and Chemistry for First Life

Study: Life's Raw Material Came from Space

Comets as Toolkits for Jump-starting Life

Videos

• The Best Gift of All: A Box of Moon Soil. Jamie Elsila (2019)
• Meet Danny Glavin (2019)
• Hispan@s De La NASA. José Aponte (2019)
• Origins of Complex Organics in Primitive Bodies. Jamie Elsila (2018)
• Studying an Asteroid on Earth. Jason Dworkin (2015)
• Meet Jamie Elsila Cook (2013)
• OSIRIS-REx. Jason Dworkin (2012)
• Meet Jason Dworkin (2010)
• Meet Danny Glavin (2010)

Podcasts

• Orbitals: What Is Life? Does It Exist Beyond Earth?, with Jason Dworkin (2021)
• Gravity Assist: A Special Delivery of Life’s Building Blocks, with Jason Dworkin (2020)
• Gravity Assist: Life on the Rocks, with Heather Graham (2020)

TV

• Strip the Cosmos (2018)
• Through The Wormhole (2012)
• Cosmic Shore (2012)