Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday.The ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing 14 of the 20 essential amino acids for ...

New research suggests the Moon still lives and that it isn't just a hunk of dead, cooled molten rock like scientists used to ...

Mars haunts us as a vision of a planet gone wrong. It was once warm and wet, with rivers flowing across its surface and ...

Scientists may have figured out how Mars hung onto its surface liquid water in its ancient history via alternating periods of ...

Lead pollution started peaking when the Romans took over the Aegean coastline.

Discover the fascinating findings from asteroid Bennu: pristine salt minerals reveal the presence of liquid water in the ...

Scientists have discovered that the asteroid Bennu contains the chemical ingredients of life, supporting the theory of their ...

For millions of years, as the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates have drifted toward each other, the underground ancient ...

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece ...