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

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

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

In 2015, a resident of Maryborough, Victoria, named David Hole, thought he had found a gold nugget in the Maryborough ...

On November 30, 1954,Ann Elizabeth Hodges experienced what would become one of the most bizarre events in the history of ...

On the ground, its rings are hard to appreciate; dunes, heat haze, and uneven terrain all conspire to hide the full shape. But from space, especially in the images taken by the Copernicus satellite, ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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.