Extremophiles: Life in Extreme Conditions Extremophiles are the superheroes of the microbial world. These organisms find a ...

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

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

SETI scientists suggest that extraterrestrial civilizations could detect Earth through 'technosignatures' like planetary ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

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

Water, one of the essential ingredients for life on Earth, did not appear on the planet until after the moon-forming event, a new study claims ...

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

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...