A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

Simulations of a massive asteroid, as wide as the Eiffel Tower is tall, suggest Earth could face catastrophic consequences, ...

Christophe Zimmer is the new "Spitzenprofessor" at the University of Würzburg. As a luminary in the field of biological ...

Jewel Plummer Cobb was a cancer researcher who investigated how hormones, ultraviolet light and chemotherapeutic drugs can ...

Look at it this way — there's almost a 99 per cent chance an asteroid up to the size of a football field won't hit the Earth ...