Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

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

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

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

About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest ...

Life on Mars is a dream long held – and not just for David Bowie. The idea of settling on the Red Planet has been around for ...

The survival of organisms in the vacuum of space could support the theory that life didn't start on Earth, but originated ...

LEXI, an X-ray imager, includes nine lobster-eye micropore optical elements and is designed to monitor the interaction of solar wind with Earth's magnetosphere. It will capture low-energy X-rays ...