NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

In a nutshell Scientists found pristine salt minerals in asteroid Bennu samples that formed in a specific sequence as ancient ...

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

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

An international team of researchers clocked WASP-127b's speedy winds using the VLT's CRIRES+ instrument. Short for "Cryogenic high-resolution InfraRed Echelle Spectrograph," CRIRES+ allows ...

A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...

Referred to as a planetary parade or alignment, this celestial event occurs when multiple planets in our solar system appear ...

Stock illustration of all the solar system's planets ... with fewer planets lining up together semi-frequently. Two-planet alignments, or conjunctions, can happen several times a year, but ...

Pluto has a mass of 1.3 x 10 22 ... in the solar system compared with its parent body. In fact, Charon and Pluto are so similar in size that they are considered a double dwarf planet system ...