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

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

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate ...

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 ...

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

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

NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent years combing Jezero Crater for traces of ancient water and potential biosignatures, but ...

David Hole thought he had found a giant gold nugget but what he discovered turned out to be even more astonishing ...

Scientists have discovered living, methane-producing microbes deep inside a massive meteorite impact crater in Sweden, and ...

David Hole thought he had struck gold with his metal detector but what he really discovered was far rarer - but it would take ...