I/ATLAS is old news; NASA's discovery of the mysterious starless object Cloud 9 is rewriting cosmic theory. Here is what ...

The observations were carried out by the Breakthrough Listen program as the object neared its closest approach to Earth on ...

New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...

New research shows how RNA, a key molecule for life, may have formed on early Earth using simple chemistry and materials delivered by asteroid impacts, linking space science with the origins of life ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

When astronomers first spotted a faint, fast-moving object racing through the outer Solar System in mid-2025, few expected it ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Enduring the greatest threat, only to die shortly after is not the narrative films and books have accustomed us to, but ...

Choose your fighter for the origin of water on Earth! Was it always here or did it come to this planet from somewhere else in ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

An international team of researchers pointed the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world at 3I/ATLAS.

REx reveals asteroid Bennu contains life's building blocks, shedding light on Earth's origins and the potential for extraterrestrial life.