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

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

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

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

Their research reveals which Earthly 'technosignatures' would be easiest to detect from a planet across the galaxy.

US astronaut Terry Virts prefers to share his experiences from space through his photographs. He tells the exciting stories ...

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

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

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 ...

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

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”, ...