Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

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

Although they don't impact the surface directly, historical evidence and simulations suggest airbursts can pack a punch.

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

Some parts of Earth's atmosphere are studied continuously ... lidar instruments — and fed them into a new data assimilation system they had developed earlier. Data assimilation is a technique ...

In the early evening, look to the southwest and you'll see Venus (the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon) and ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the ...

Megaproject aims for ‘original, landmark and leading-edge scientific breakthroughs as soon as possible’, according to state media.

The original Soviet-era missiles performed poorly in accuracy tests, but Iraqi modifications made them far worse.

Exoplanet WASP-127b is a hot Jupiter, a gas giant planet orbiting very close to its star. The system is more than 500 ...