Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

"The fact that terrestrial microbes are the Earth's best colonizers means we can never completely discount terrestrial ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

The sample from the asteroid Ryugu was overrun with Earth-based life forms after they were brought to the planet, scientists ...

A recent discovery made by scientists working with a sample of rock from outer space highlights one of the huge challenges ...

The unexpected discovery of microbial life in a piece of rock from an asteroid shows how hard it is to avoid contaminating ...

Faint magnetic properties in primitive asteroid fragments suggest an early magnetic field strong enough to shepherd the ...

A team of researchers led by Matthew Genge at Imperial College London confirmed that the asteroid has organic molecules; it confirmed that the samples actually have signs of life — but this life doesn ...

Discovery published in Meteoritics & Planetary Science highlights challenge of contamination in space exploration ...

A "harmless" asteroid burned up Tuesday night above northern Siberia in Russia, creating a blazing fireball in the sky ...

Previous analyses of meteorites found on Earth have revealed that some of these space rocks contain the five nucleobases essential for organic life. An animation of asteroid Ryugu made with images ...