Space mining tech and robotic prospecting are unlocking extraterrestrial resources, reshaping future energy, manufacturing, ...

How life began on Earth is one of the biggest remaining questions in science. Now, NASA has taken a major step towards answering this query. The US space agency has discovered essential sugars on ...

Did humans not originate from Earth? That is a question which has always puzzled scientists. Now, a social media claim has ...

A smattering of tiny salt crystals discovered in a sample from an asteroid has researchers at the University of Arizona excited because these crystals can only have formed in the presence of liquid ...

NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists discovered glucose, the human body’s main source of energy, as well as the critical ...

“Asteroid City” actors Maya Hawke and Rupert Friend are open to the idea that there’s life outside of Earth. The pair are part of an all-star cast in the latest sci-fi comedy-drama from Wes Anderson, ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission found sugars essential for biology on asteroid Bennu. These sugars, along with previously found components, indicate that the building blocks for life's molecules were ...

In a world filled with dangerous surprises for global insurers, the next unexpected risk to watch for is the small likelihood of a large, “city-killing” asteroid colliding with Earth in 2032. And yes, ...

Hayabusa, launched in 2003, reached Itokawa, above, in 2005. After taking photos of the 500-metre-long asteroid, Hayabusa landed on it twice in November 2005. ((ISAS/JAXA)) A Japanese spacecraft that ...

Earth is surrounded by rocky bodies and bits of debris from when the solar system formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago. On Saturday, one of those leftover rocks will whiz past Earth. The asteroid is ...

The US$325M mission was the first attempt to shift the position of an asteroid, in preparation for the day one might be on course to hit Earth Author of the article: You can save this article by ...