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 ...

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

R etired astronaut and current Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) celebrated NASA ’s “pretty exciting” announcement on Thursday after the space agency highlighted how scientists found sugars essential for life ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amateur astronomer Tony Dunn must have been particularly impressed by the November crop of new asteroids to have put the 18 ...

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

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

— -- 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 ...

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 ...