Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago. Although meteorites on Earth ...

It is thus only fitting for a goddess to be named for none other than the door hinge: Cardea. And now, thanks to Clay ...

Like Jupiter, HD 189733 b is a gas giant – and is classified as an "exoplanet", because it's outside our own Solar System. The planet is so scary that Nasa created this mock horror movie poster ...

A TERRIFYING alien planet that “rains glass” lurks just 64.5 lightyears from Earth. Described as a “nightmare world” by Nasa, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

head of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters in Washington. “By studying the Sun up close, we can better understand its impacts throughout our solar system, including on the technology ...

But this time, the push for change is likely to be more concerted, especially with key elements of NASA's architecture, including the Space Launch System rocket, being bypassed by privately ...

The solar flare, classified as an X-class event with a strength of X1.2, erupted at 6:39 AM (Eastern Time) and reached its peak at 5:41 PM on Friday, January 3. It originated from the sunspot region ...

ESA and NASA's Solar Orbiter mission captured the sun kicking out flares in 2024. The blue circles ... [+] indicate flares. Our closest star has been delivering quite a show in recent months.

NASA's Parker Solar ... to make before," Parker Solar Probe Project Manager Helene Winters said in a statement. "From the heat shield to the solar array cooling system, there was so much enabling ...