Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists ...

Analyzing pristine fragments of the asteroid delivered to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023, a team led by ...

A new study suggests a meteorite the size of not one, but FOUR Mt. Everests may have aided the beginning of life on Earth. The mammoth S2 meteorite, discovered in 2014, is believed to have caused a ...

A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

the Earth you walk on today might not be the same planet that was born 4.5 billion years ago. Many scientists believe that in its infancy, Earth collided with another world the size of Mars, and that ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a tantalizing venue for humankind’s search for life beyond Earth. Mars today ...