The presidential election and all the mixed emotions that this event stirs every four years in the U.S. make me wonder whether other forms of choosing a government are any ...

Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.

Ambitious film starts with interesting premise — a digital courtship between a satellite and an AI-equipped buoy — but can't find much to say about it.

Out of all the planets in the Universe, Earth is clearly the best for life, right? Wrong. Earth may be great, but scientists ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the ...

"NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of our solar system," the statement reads ...

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

New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

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

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample ...

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