A NASA spacecraft returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the remains of ...

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

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

The 60-metre object has ‘one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly sized rock ever’, says astronomer ...

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...