The Cincinnati Observatory posted a video of a fireball spotting in Cincinnati skies and reported the observatory’s first ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after ...

A man searching for gold in Maryborough Regional Park, Victoria, Australia has stumbled on something far more ancient - a ...

One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer ...

We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start ...

A critical nutrient used to produce the neurotransmitter serotonin may have turned up in samples collected from asteroid ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

A group of researchers from Japan and the United States have detected six types of sugar in rock and dust samples from an asteroid that could show ingredients for life existed outside Earth.

Bennu is a primitive rock. It has remained mostly unchanged since the birth of our solar system around 4.6 billion years ago. On September 24, 2023, dust and mineral samples were hauled to Earth by ...

The pristine interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is theorised to be covered in ice cryovolcanoes, challenging all models of comet ...

It is good to be back and there is plenty to explore in the December night sky. Starting on Tuesday is the comet C/2025 T1 Atlas, which makes its closest approach to the sun. There is a supermoon on ...