Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.

The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days ...

A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years — and pinpoints why.

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

An HTC headset designed to work in space is offsetting the physical and psychological challenges of humans living off-world.

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

But according to an international team of researchers, including some from the University of Geneva, in a study published ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

For millennia, humans have asked whether we are alone in the universe, yet the discovery of aliens still eludes us. But if ...

Image of Shackleton Crater, a permanently shadowed region near the lunar south pole, shows slevation (left) and shaded relief ...