On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Legislation to create school vouchers in Texas would send taxpayer money to private schools that teach anti-science ideas.

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

NASA has plans to launch the first deep space station for humans to live long-term. Is it a necessary step to Mars?

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft mission has delivered a sample of the asteroid Bennu to Earth and it has been found to contain ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.