Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

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

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

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”, ...

A sample from a primitive asteroid that was parachuted into Utah's West Desert in 2023 revealed the building blocks of life, ...

It is believed that the planet, named HD 20794 d, is at just the right distance from its star to sustain water on its surface ...

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

The Yellow River, which stretches from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bohai Sea in China, is so called because of the color lent ...

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