The Yellow River, which stretches from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bohai Sea in China, is so called because of the color lent ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

Due to climate change and other factors, waters levels are plummeting. Learn what could help and why it’s so important to ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

Harvard scientists explain how Mars had warm spells billions of years ago, allowing rivers and lakes to exist.

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...

New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.

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

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

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

The search for water on the Moon has captivated scientists for decades. Beyond its implications for understanding planetary ...