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

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth.

In Graphics: How Bennu samples were retrieved ... five nucleobases - the genetic components of DNA and RNA in all life on Earth.

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

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

Earth’s core is located below the middle layer called the mantle and the outer layer –or crust. It consists of two main parts ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet.

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era. Insights from a ...

It may provide the clearest picture yet of how Earth evolved to a point where life was able to flourish. “This is a tour-de-force theoretical endeavor, bridging a longstanding gap between surface ...

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Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life. "We're trying to figure out how much mass is reaching Venus from Earth, and how many cells can that mass carry," Emma Guinan, first author of a ...