From lush mountains to calm waters, Bora Bora in French Polynesia offers nature’s perfection in every direction.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Scientists discover asteroid spinning once every 1.88 minutes—the fastest rotation ever found for a large space rock. Five ...

Chinese researchers want to send more than 20 of China's largest rockets to practice turning away a sizable asteroid - a technique that may eventually be crucial if a killer rock is on a collision ...

🚨Record-breaking asteroid spotted by NSF–DOE @VRubinObs 🚨 Using early data from the LSST Camera, astronomers have ...

Out in the depths of space, somewhere in between Mars and Jupiter, is a newly discovered asteroid that's breaking records.

New experiments suggest that RNA, a crucial molecule for life, could have naturally formed on early Earth or even arrived from space via asteroids.

In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...

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

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the museum’s collection ...