Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

“In a world that is now so dependent on electricity and electronics, a similar event has the potential to cause widespread disruptions and damage to the electronics aboard Earth-orbiting satellites, ...

In October, members of the Wet’suwet’en Nation travelled to Paris and gathered around the K’ëgit pole for the first time ...

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

"It's been such a puzzle that there was liquid water on Mars, because Mars is further from the sun, and also, the sun was ...

About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest bacteria cannot survive. However, there are places where life thrives ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

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

A new study by an international team of researchers has uncovered troves of microbes thriving in the hostile subsurface of the earth, far from the life-giving energy of the sun. Chief among the ...

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

These changes in appearance are the phases of the moon. As the moon orbits Earth, it cycles through eight distinct phases. The four primary phases of the moon (new moon, first quarter, full moon ...

Earth,” dubbed HD 20794 d, boasts a mass six times that of our planet and resides within the star’s “habitable zone.” The ...