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Scientists have located organic matter that is extraterrestrial in origin, in 3.3 billion year old rocks. This supports the theory that organic chemicals arrived on our planet aboard a meteorite and created the building blocks for life. The post Scientist

A new study supported by NASA has revealed that an ancient ocean on Venus might have been what slowed down its rotation, thus causing the runaway greenhouse effect that made it what it is today. The post Theory proposes that Venus could have been habitabl

As nuclear explosions go, the US "Cactus" bomb test in May 1958 was relatively small—but it has left a lasting legacy for the Marshall Islands in a dome-shaped radioactive dump.

Prepare yourselves, astronomy fans: a mile-wide double asteroid is approaching Earth and may be visible on Saturday night, May 25, according to the Farmers Almanac.The asteroid is categorized as 1999 KW4 and consists of a primary spac...

A Blue Moon is the second full moon within a full month. So why is there a Blue Moon on Saturday (May 18), given that it's May's first full moon?

The Blue Origin boss has revealed a set of futuristic space habitats for humankind

NASA's mission to get humans, including the first woman, to the moon again in 2024 has been named Artemis, after a Greek goddess of the moon

The president mentioned on Twitter other projects targeted in his budget, including the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.

Moonshine, liquor produced without government oversight, can be a lot more potent than regulated alcohol. It can also be dangerous, and even deadly.

Mars as we know it today is a mostly dry, dusty place with a few pockets of ice in remote regions. It's barren and we're pretty sure it's lifeless today, but that might not have a...

A rather sizeable chunk of space rock is due to zoom past our planet tomorrow. Dubbed asteroid 2019 HO3, the celestial object is estimated to be up to 393 feet wide and will swing through our corner of space in the early hours of Wednesday morning for a s

Visions of space rocks slamming into Earth aren't just for dinosaurs and Hollywood movies.

After a string of discoveries, alien life is not as far-fetched as it used to be.

Beautiful blue planets with endless oceans may be orbiting many of the Milky Way's one trillion stars. In 2016, for example, Kepler astronomers discovered planets that are unlike anything in our solar system a "water world" planetary system or

The oceans contain almost 200,000 different viral populations, according to the latest count. Though most are harmless to humans, they can infect marine life, including whales and crustaceans.

The Navy abandoned "safety through ignorance" and drafted guidelines to report UFO sightings.

Naval officers keep seeing what they call "unexplained aerial phenomena," more commonly known to regular folk as UFOs. And now the Navy is officially getting around to looking into what's going on with all that. Cue the Mark Snow instrumentals

After 20 years of dedicated research, scientists have cracked the chemical code of an incredibly complex 'anti-tumour antibiotic' known to be highly effective against cancer cells as well as drug-resistant bacteria, and have reproduced it syntheti

What do NASA engineers, synthetic biologists and Silicon Valley VCs do for Coachella? Throw a party to talk about colonizing space.

Scratching the skin triggers a series of immune responses culminating in an increased number of activated mast cells -- immune cells involved in allergic reactions -- in the small intestine, according to research conducted in mice. This newly identified s