Analyzing pristine fragments of the asteroid delivered to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023, a team led by ...

Space communications expert, Alexandra Doten, has explained what the discovery of a gum-like substance on an asteroid 63 ...

Beneath nearly two million square miles of Pacific Ocean lies a landmass larger than Greenland—one that remained hidden from ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

Later in December, the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet will get as close to Earth as it ever will. Here's what to know.

The team discovered that the surface might contain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life. Astronomers from the, Irvine have discovered a planet orbiting within the “habitable zone” of its ...

Seventy light-years from Earth, a star called Kappa Tucanae A harbors one of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries: dust so ...

Chinese researchers have discovered that interstitial carbon in iron-carbon alloys behaves in a superionic, liquid-like state ...

— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface ...

University of Alberta geochemists have discovered a missing piece to one of the great mysteries of science—the origin of life ...

Inge Lehmann defied expectations to reveal Earth’s inner core—a solid sphere of iron creating the magnetic field that sustains life. Her groundbreaking 1936 discovery reshaped geophysics and inspired ...