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

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

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...

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”, ...

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

In a triumph for NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, new findings suggest that tiny bits of rock retrieved from the ...

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...

UCSB's Professor David Tilman just recieved the National Medal of Science for revealing the importance of biodiversity.

2024 — Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural ...

sign up for Science Friday's newsletters. January 21, 2025 • From down here on Earth, life on the International Space Station seems magnificent: floating through the day, enjoying stunning views ...

The Yellow River, which stretches from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bohai Sea in China, is so called because of the color lent ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...