When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...
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YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused some alarm.
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The holy city of Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka is the alleged home of a map that could unlock the secrets of the universe.
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Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
Astronomers have discovered HD 20794 d, a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a star just 20 light-years away. This ...
Astronomers recently identified a mysterious object near Earth that left them puzzled—until they realized Elon Musk was ...