The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

Analysis of samples taken from the asteroid Bennu reveal the presence of organic compounds important for life, and that its ...

A layer of ice saved them from the depths and allowed scientists a peek into the birth of the solar system. Nearly 60 years later, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an ...

The craft will visit a target asteroid, prospecting for valuable platinum ... in what it calls an “electronic circular,” a term of art that reflects the long legacy of observational tradition.

Europa League champions Atalanta miss out on an automatic place in the Champions League last 16 following a 2-2 draw at ...

Co-owner of Revere Auctions is working with fine art experts to authenticate what they believe is a legitimate painting from Vincent Van Gogh.

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA's first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, ...

Some amino acids can be built in two ways that mirror each other, like a pair of right and left hands. Life on Earth uses the ...

With more dicey systems and crew management Citizen Sleeper 2 risks losing some of its storytelling heart, even if it remains a well-crafted sci-fi RPG.

News that astronomers recently mistook Elon Musk's Roadster for an asteroid is doing the rounds on X. The electric sports car was used as the dummy payload for the February 2018 Falcon Heavy test ...