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 ...

A team of scientists discovered that the near-Earth asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of minerals and organic molecules, including many that are building blocks of life. But what has the 4.5 ...

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

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (United States) had to withdraw the discovery when it realized that it was a ...

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 said that the findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest the conditions necessary for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system.

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the “basic building blocks” for life, shedding new light on the perennial question of how life began on our planet. The revelation, ...

The revelation, in two studies published, is the result of work on just 120 grams of material -- about the weight of a banana ...

NASA's latest asteroid sample from Bennu reveals amino acids and nucleobases, essential for life, sparking questions about ...