Locked inside a frozen rock from the edge of the world is a story that began before Earth had oceans, continents or even a ...

Researchers are vetting ultraback copper cobaltate nanoneedles and their potential to replace carbon nanotubes.

Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two enormous, blazing stars swung close to the solar system. They did not touch the sun, but ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...

Astronomers observing TOI-3884b found its orbit misaligned by 62° from its star’s rotation, uncovered through multicolour ...

The pristine interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is theorised to be covered in ice cryovolcanoes, challenging all models of comet ...

Researchers say this ancient “space gum,” once soft and flexible but now hardened, may have provided some of the chemical ...

Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...

Sometime in 2029, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch its Comet Interceptor Mission. The Interceptor will wait ...

NASA’s Bennu samples have revealed life-linked sugars, a mysterious gum-like substance and even grains of ancient stardust.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought back pristine pieces of the asteroid Bennu in 2023—and these tiny grains are turning out to ...