The idea of cosmic threats to Earth almost sounds like the stuff of fiction. But while alien invasions may be far fetched, ...

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

Two science teams pored over samples from the B-type asteroid Bennu, finding chemicals linked to the beginnings of life and ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

Indigenous storytelling is rooted in the earth. Years upon years of a kinship with the land, life, water and sky have produced a variety of narratives about intimate connections to the earth.

And, in turn, the discovery of multiple kinds of dark comets could tell us more about how Earth was made habitable for life. "We report detections of seven dark comets which demonstrate that there ...

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

Webster and Lennon dug into the fossil record and combed over the tree of life to find that dormancy has been used by a wide variety of organisms and for all of Earth's history, including today.

Some amino acids can be built in two ways that mirror each other, like a pair of right and left hands. Life on Earth uses the left-handed variety of these amino acids. Scientists have previously found ...