NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced ...

When solar wind hits lunar soil, it starts reactions. Protons in the wind meet electrons in Moon dust. This makes hydrogen ...

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

Disney's next ship is setting sail in November, and will be filled with Marvel stylings, villains and a few classic heroes.

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

Hazen realized he could use the pressure bomb to test this ... in Hazen's lab, combines mineral dust and amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Amanda Lucidon Some meteorites, shown here ...

Scientists speculate that asteroids colliding with Earth delivered water—an essential building block of life—but new research ...

BIR MOGHREIN, Mauritania — You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s atmosphere every day, scientists estimate.

Oxford researchers have unearthed a cosmic surprise showing that the hydrogen needed for water was embedded in the very rocks ...