Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

Astronomers who identified HD 20794 d say its proximity to its host star and orbital pattern suggest it could hold water.

Analyzing a sample from an asteroid named Bennu reveals the chemicals necessary to form DNA and RNA.

At the same time, exoplanetologists have begun to take an interest in their characteristics, with the aim of finding life elsewhere in the universe. This is the background to the discovery of ...

The latest discovery, unveiled by the NASA on January 29, came as a bit of a surprise and posed many exciting questions such ...

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

This allows us to tackle key questions about the evolution of the early Solar System, planet formation, and the ingredients for life. Another aim of the OSIRIS-REx mission is to ... This was a ...

The discovery hints that life-friendly chemistry could be far more ... the National Museum of Natural History, tells Smithsonian magazine. “We had expectations they would have a lot of clays ...

A Rhode Island fisherman’s video of an unusual shark led scientists to confirm the first documented young spinner shark in ...

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

This spring break, visitors at the Institute for Creation Research Discovery Center can explore life-size dinosaur exhibits, ...

Your world might be getting quieter, and you may not even realize it. While most people associate hearing loss with aging or loud concert venues, ...