This new propulsion system could rewrite the rules of spaceflight—not to mention completely defy conventional physics.

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

NASA’s latest measurements show that Earth is reflecting less sunlight back into space than it used to, a subtle shift with outsized consequences for the climate system. As the planet’s surface and ...

NASA revealed that scientists discovered sugars that are “essential” to life and a “gum-like” substance on the space rock Bennu NASA/Goddard/University of ...

Scientists have discovered 26 previously unknown bacterial species living inside NASA’s ultra-sterile spacecraft assembly ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and an ESA orbiter bound for Jupiter both recently glimpsed 3I/ATLAS. The comet will make its closest approach to Earth in December but poses no threat and is not visible ...

Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu are continuing to shed light on the origins of the solar system. Scientists have been studying the samples since NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft carried them back to ...

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Sugars essential for life were found for the first time alongside “space gum” on an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, indicating that our universe could be teeming with life, according to new research.

New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues to how life developed in our neck of the cosmos, including the sugars ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope caught a glimpse of 3I/ATLAS – again. For months, 3I/ATLAS has attracted plenty of attention – and become the source of bizarre alien spaceship conspiracies – as it ...