New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...

The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...

Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected ...

A U.S. solar industry group on Wednesday unveiled an aggressive goal to deploy vast amounts of energy storage capacity by ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System. The gravitational tug-of-war between Jupiter and ...

Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...

Ed Miliband is on course to miss his flagship clean power target because of a projected shortfall in wind and solar farms, ...

A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.