NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft successfully launched Monday afternoon from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center on Florida’s ...

The vital ingredients for life on Earth may have been delivered by meteorites from larger bodies called "planetesimals" in ...

Billions of years ago, long before anything resembling life as we know it existed, meteorites frequently pummeled the planet.

New evidence has emerged suggesting that the building blocks of life were delivered to the primordial Earth from space by meteorites, a finding that could help scientists hunt for alien life.

The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that ...

Researchers have reportedly detected potential techno and bio signatures from a distant planet, suggesting the presence of ...

The Europa Clipper launched Monday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket propelling it on a six-year journey to reach its ...

A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then ...

Well, they've done it. Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership of NASA and its European and Canadian ...

NASA is getting ready to launch a £4 billion spacecraft in to the solar system in a mission that is likely to be the biggest ...