Chile's dark skies, vital for astronomy, face threats from urban development. The asteroid Bennu could pose a future risk to ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...

Interestingly, birds remain woefully understudied when it comes to the optical extras. Until now, no one had looked for the ...

In his inauguration speech in January, United States President Donald Trump declared the US would "plant the stars and stripes on the planet ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with the Earth in September 2182, new research has discovered. The IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

Collected from Bennu, a space rock shaped like a spinning top ... But how these molecules formed—and if they stuck around—remains a mystery. The team also detected high amounts of ammonia and ...

Scientists have confirmed the presence of organic molecules on the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, opening the door to the possibility that life on Earth arose from cosmic origins.

Scientists can be sadistic people at times. Now, they’ve simulated what will happen to us all if Bennu, a hill-sized piece of space rock, indeed does end up colliding with Earth. You’ve ...

A long-established factory combines tradition with innovation to produce thousands of high-quality paint bottles with ...