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

David Hole was searching for gold in Australia when he discovered a 17-kilogram meteorite, estimated to be about 4.6 billion ...

For decades, humanity has sought answers to one of the most profound questions in science: are we alone in the universe? The ...

A specially trained algorithm could aid the search for biological activity both on the early Earth and on other worlds.

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

Apollo samples provide evidence: Researchers analyzed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and, for the first time, ...

When a meteor flashes across the night sky, it’s more than a beautiful streak of light. It’s a delivery from deep space—an ...