Mars, often imagined as a lifeless desert battered by radiation and cold, holds within its crust the haunting memory of a ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

Imagine a world where dense mangrove forests meet churning tides, and the air hangs heavy with salt and mystery. In this ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has found rocks rich in carbonate minerals. These minerals are like Earth’s limestone and act as ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off after ...

In the furthest, deepest reaches of the ocean, there is a watery graveyard where the world's satellites and space stations go to rest. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

How closely did the salty brine on Bennu’s parent body resemble the “primordial soup” that simmered on the young, watery Earth and perhaps cooked up the first terrestrial life?

A sample from asteroid Bennu contains organic compounds usually found at midocean ridges on Earth, suggesting Bennu may have been part of an ancient ocean world.

Thick clay deposits on Mars hint at long-lived lakes that may have sheltered early life - and preserved clues beneath layers ...

Bennu asteroid samples yield watery history, key molecules for life Clues as to how building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded. Timothy J McCoy and Sara Russell, The Conversation ...