Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

Chemotaxis, a process for chemically inducing movement in an organism, may be a crucial tool in the search for life on Mars.

In recent weeks, there have been several air accidents around the world. On Friday, there was a new accident involving a small plane in Brazil. Specifically, the accident occurred ...

"What if the iron stones were warming up to the point where they would actually melt the glacial ice beneath them and sink ...

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...

C ome with us as we dive into a belter of an ocean mystery: a giant, unidentified object spotted by ocean explorers at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. In one sonar image (albeit it rather blurry) it ...

The chemical makeup of mineral inclusions preserved in impact glass hints at the site of a missing impact crater.

Upheaval Dome is a giant rock formation in southeastern Utah with two potential origin stories, although most scientists ...

Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...

Kevin Righter started at University of Rochester last year, but before that he worked on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect ...

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Little wonder the poles can seem timeless, places of desolate beauty – tundra and rock in the north, and wind and ice in the ...