New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about ...

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HUNTING for aliens is now a little easier as scientists discover a new sign that gives away life on far-off planets.

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New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

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Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

A spacecraft's sample return capsule was detected entering the Earth's atmosphere using acoustic sensors by a team of ...

Nobody knows how life began on Earth, but some tantalizing clues from an asteroid suggest it might not have started here.

Earth is our home planet, and it's the only place in the universe where we know for certain that life exists. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished ...