They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery has implications for medicine, energy efficiency, and astrobiology. Which ...

Their research reveals which Earthly 'technosignatures' would be easiest to detect from a planet across the galaxy.

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...

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

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. The finding ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar system, as detailed in a series of papers ...