Three people find a meteorite and take it home. Over the next few nights, a series of strange and ominous events begins to ...

Stargazers rejoice! Dec. 4 marks the start of the annual Geminid meteor shower, as Earth passes through the trail of debris ...

Asteroid Bennu's sample delivered a shock: ribose and glucose were found, confirming the widespread presence of life's fundamental building blocks in the early Solar System.

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

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.

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

A man searching for gold in Maryborough Regional Park, Victoria, Australia has stumbled on something far more ancient - a 17-kilogram rock he first believed held a nugget now has been confirmed as a 4 ...

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

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

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 ...