The ingredients necessary to make RNA has been discovered on samples returned from Asteroid Bennu. The research indicates ...

New research suggests that ‘early human pioneers’ in Australia interbred with archaic species of hobbits at least 60,000 ...

Scientists are uncovering signs that Earth has been hit by powerful cosmic blasts that leave little trace on the surface yet unleash extraordinary heat and pressure.

December is the month that fans of 3I/ATLAS have been waiting for as the interstellar comet makes its closest approach to ...

University of Alberta geochemists have discovered a missing piece to one of the great mysteries of science—the origin of life ...

Seventy light-years from Earth, a star called Kappa Tucanae A harbors one of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries: dust so ...

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

Anna North’s novel “Bog Queen” sheds light on the tension between the desire for knowledge, preservation and money.

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

Chinese researchers have discovered that interstitial carbon in iron-carbon alloys behaves in a superionic, liquid-like state under Earth’s core pressure and temperature conditions. Beneath Earth’s ...

Amateur astronomer Tony Dunn must have been particularly impressed by the November crop of new asteroids to have put the 18 ...