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

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

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

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There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

Astronomers have officially confirmed the existence of HD 20794 d, a super-Earth located just 20 light-years away, with ...

The study highlights the urgent need to safeguard global tropical wetlands from human impact. Complex organisms, thousands of ...

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to ...

The extremely hot, dry and windy conditions that drove the destructive LA fires were likely due to global heating, a new ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

Space exploration is changing fast. And the big question now facing us is: Do we still need humans out there? With AI taking ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, ...