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

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

until a friend pointed out that his daily intake was more than half the lethal dose. “We can spend a couple weeks up here, and we start to forget about life on Earth,” he tells me.

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

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 ...

Where there is water, there is the potential for life as they say. “It is among the closest Earth analogues we know ... in which it oscillates in and out of the habitable zone, meaning any ...

Extremophiles: Life in Extreme Conditions Extremophiles are the superheroes of the microbial world. These organisms find a ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...

This supports the theory that similar asteroids may have helped deliver the water and chemical building blocks that ultimately led to the evolution of life on Earth. The secrets of the asteroid Bennu ...