We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

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

Located less than 20 light years away, HD 20794d could potentially be one of the most Earth-like planets found so far, ...

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 ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

A building-sized asteroid found in 2024 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032. For the first time ever, a planetary defense response is planning how to deal with the asteroid. If it did strike ...

Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid ...

until a friend pointed out that his daily intake was more than half the lethal dose. “We can spend a couple weeks up here, and we start to forget about life on Earth,” he tells me.

As we herald the year of the Wood Snake, your Chinese New Year animal can tell a lot about what you can expect 2025 to bring ...