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

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

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

Asteroids are remnants of the formation of our solar system, and while many can be found within the asteroid belt between the ...

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

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

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

We've known for a while that complex chemistry occurs in space. Organic molecules have been detected in cold molecular clouds ...

Chinese scientists have built a cat-inspired robot designed to adjust its posture and stick its landing even in low-gravity ...

Imperial College London scientists say microbes on asteroid samples from Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission have down to Earth ...

A recently discovered asteroid was on a collision course with Earth and created a stunning lightshow above Eastern Siberia this afternoon. The tiny space rock, known among scientists as COWECP5 ...