Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...

Chile's dark skies, vital for astronomy, face threats from urban development. The asteroid Bennu could pose a future risk to ...

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

Alaskans are pretty familiar with a variety of resources that are regularly mined in the state, but perhaps not too familiar with the idea of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) mining.

Jan. 31 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency is monitoring an asteroid with a slim chance to strike Earth in 2032. Asteroid ...

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...

From a special recognition for Purdue engineering at the Indiana Statehouse to Adriana Harmeyer’s return to “Jeopardy!” — Trevor Peters has all the latest Boilermaker news in this week’s edition of ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar ...

A capsule carrying about a half cup of dust and rocks from an ancient asteroid named Bennu landed in the Utah desert in 2023. The samples were collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which sent a ...

Researchers have determined the precise date when an asteroid could potentially impact Earth, carrying with it a power equivalent to that of 22 atomic bombs. This celestial object, named Bennu, ...