Learn about the new perspective on Earth's reduction of moderately volatile elements, a discovery made possible by meteorites ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

By exploring Yellowstone's geothermal springs, scientists discovered the microbes that reveal how life adapted to harsh conditions billions of years ago.

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

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 ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar ...

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...