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.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, ...

On 20 October, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On 4 September, 2023, as it passed ...

The Angelo State University Planetarium will present 22 shows starting early February, here's the full schedule.

SpaceX successfully launched 21 Starlink satellites from Florida's Space Coast early this morning, marking its 15th Falcon 9 mission of the year. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral ...

AN alien world “suffers star-grazing torture” every 111 days as its fiery sun boils the planet to a hellish 1,093C. This ...

Bennu asteroid sample reveals amino acids and nucleobases essential for Water-related minerals in the sample point to ancient chemical processe Equal left- and right-handed amino acids raise questions ...

A hot water extract from an asteroid Bennu sample (left, “Bennu tea”) was found to contain a surprising abundance of ammoni.(NASA) In a major twist to the study of life beyond Earth ...

Asteroid Bennu, once thought a lifeless relic, has surprised scientists with briny traces of life's raw ingredients. Samples collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reveal not only water marks from ...

A modern case in point: The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. The OSIRIS-REx mission launched in 2016. Its main aim was to study Bennu and retrieve samples to bring back ...

Constellation Energy (NASDAQ: CEG) was among the losers this week as the deregulated utility was one of a number of stocks to get hit hard by the launch of DeepSeek, the Chinese AI start-up that ...