The discovery supports the theory that asteroids seeded life on Earth.

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light ...

The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – was spotted by Oxford University scientists orbiting in the ‘habitable ...

Some fear we’ll be buried in brimstone; others expect to be extinguished by A.I. But is there comfort to be found in our ...

Some of the best The Far Side comics are also the darkest, whereas others simply highlight the absurdity of life that none of ...

Without it, the solar wind (a stream of charged particles from the sun) could strip away our atmosphere and make Earth much less hospitable for life. The magnetic field also helps animals navigate.

The idea of life continuing on Earth without humans has a way of catching our attention. Our species has spread across land and sea, altering the planet in countless ways. Still, Earth’s history shows ...

Earth will reach perihelion at 09:00 Universal ... feeble glow in the winter sky. Our life-giver is doing its minimum, never getting high enough to do anything other than dazzle drivers.

I shine as a lieutenant because of these guys." The Norton Police Department issued a warning on their Facebook page on Friday, urging drivers to exercise extra caution, particularly during wet ...