Humans are inching closer to living beyond Earth, but sustaining life on the moon or Mars requires a critical resource: water ...

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 ...

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

A scoop of dust from an ancient time capsule hurtling through space has forced a rethink of how inert matter became all that ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

How life evolved is one of the central questions in science and has fascinated humans for centuries. Early Earth was undoubtedly a harsh environment, but we know surprisingly little about the ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...