A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said on Wednesday. Scientists put the odds of a strike at slightly more than 1 percent. "We are not ...

The find is believed to contain the largest deposit of medium and heavy REEs in China, fueling the country's high-tech ambitions.

A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years—and pinpoints why.

"There's just a lot we don't know, and this is sort of the first step in getting a better grasp on what this biodiversity ...

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 ...

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission.

Well, we could be closer to discovering whether there really is alien life out there after researchers discovered a new ...

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

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

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

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