Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the Solar System formed, it took no more than three million years for the ...

According to China's space agency, the government is preparing to test a direct method of planetary defense by sending a ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming discs around young stars could become the seeds ...

NASA is increasingly sure its Mars rover Perseverance found a rock with biosignatures of ancient microbial life. However, the sample would need to be tested in labs on Earth to confirm the findings ...

Astronomer de Graaff from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and her team reveal what could be behind the small red dots ...

If you think you’ve found a meteorite, there are a few crucial steps to take: Note the location. Use your phone or a GPS ...

Perseverance has a drill to penetrate rocks and tubes for samples gathered from places suitable for hosting life billions of ...

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator ...

The study revealed that liquid water still existed on Ryugu one billion years after its parent body formed. This conclusion ...

The research found that liquid water still existed on the Ryugu parent body over a billion years after its formation. This ...