The contaminated images could impact various scientific studies, including asteroid detection and galaxy observations.

New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues ...

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

"I'm becoming much more optimistic that we may be able to find life beyond Earth, even in our own solar system." ...

When University at Buffalo chemists analyzed samples of water, fish, and bird eggs, they weren't surprised to find plenty of ...

An Australian startup wants to recycle a geostationary satellite to get an up-close look at the "doomsday" asteroid Apophis.

We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start life, and researchers have just found the missing ingredient: sugar ...

For the first time, tryptophan, which is an essential amino acid, has been identified in extraterrestrial material.

Asteroid 433 Eros is swinging back into Earth’s neighborhood this weekend, bright enough for backyard telescopes and even ...

Reporting from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Ministerial Council for 2025, held in Bremen last week, IFLScience reveals ...

On March 21, 2021, an object the size of the Empire State Building—traveling at 77,000 miles per hour—passed within 1.25 ...