Astrophysicists have been grappling with the question of how water arrived on our young planet for decades. One of the ...

Longtime Houstonians -- including people who were born here -- explain their abiding love for this mystifying city.

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

Roman soldier found buried face down with a dagger on his back in newly revealed fortress in Spain ...

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...

An asteroid could hit Earth, but scientists are continuing to gather data to understand its trajectory and potential impact ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

Scientists recently discovered that San Bernardino County's Searles Lake contains minerals found in outer space.

The samples delivered by the Osiris-rex spacecraft from near Earth asteroid Benu contained salts that formed in *** liquid environment like *** lake or maybe even an ocean, and organic molecules that ...

His moment arrived nearly a decade later. Glavin and a team of researchers probed the grit from Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid made of loosely bound boulders, but what they found threw them a ...

NAGROTA SURIYAN, India (AP) — Before the day breaks on a winter morning at the Pong Lake wetland in northern ... “The land made available by the receding water is the most important for ...