The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.

On April 8, 2024, the entire northern New York region was treated to one of the greatest heavenly shows: a total eclipse of ...

Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say Scientists make unexpected discovery after examining high-tech solar ...

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

Caltech scientists are developing laser-driven lightsails that could push spacecraft beyond our solar system. Their research ...

On Oct. 20, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On Sept. 4, 2023, as it passed by the earth en route to asteroid Apophis, it dropped off a capsule carrying that ...

Solar sailing, the most common version ... Images provided as part of a press release to accompany their paper in Nature Photonics show a small square sample of light sail connected to a larger, ...

Li-S Energy has reported it is moving strongly towards commercial partnerships, after major breakthroughs and industry wins.

Dr. Krishna Maharjan studies chromosomes and cell structures. One of Nepal’s leading cytogeneticists, he broadened my ...

In this genre it’s easiest to trace the “what’s next?” questions. Setting aside all the imagined apocalypses, a powerful, ...

Using energy greater than the global nuclear weapons inventory, an impact event carved two grand canyons into the moon’s surface, and the asymmetrical distribution could clear the way for future lunar ...