The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

Pristine samples from asteroid Bennu contain “basic building blocks” for life, offering new insights. The samples suggest ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...