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

But the origins of life on our planet remains one of the great mysteries of science. Now, a mission by NASA to collect a piece of ancient asteroid and bring it back to Earth has revealed that the ...

These are obvious signs that Earth has intelligent, spacefaring life. Technosignatures are any observable traces or clues that point to the presence of intelligent, technologically advanced life.

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 ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

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

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

While some signs have stronger natural connections, any relationship can work if there is mutual respect, communication, and ...

Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water ...

This 2023 satellite photo shows the heart-shaped Spirit Lake, which was transformed by the cataclysmic eruption of Mount St.

A team of scientists discovered that the near-Earth asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of minerals and organic molecules, including many that are building blocks of life. But what has the 4.5 ...