Samples obtained from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu by Japan's Hayabusa2 mission have been found to contain organic molecules.

This is not the first time that attempts have been made to grow plants in lunar regolith.

Until now, it was widely thought that meteorites that bombarded early Earth were primarily responsible for the presence of "bioavailable" p...

New York, Nov 29 (IANS) A low-mass supernova -- a star exploding at the end of its life-cycle -- triggered the formation of our solar syste...

One of the objects involved in this collision was the source of L-chondrites, still the most common type of meteorite, the identity of the ...

Asteroid impacts on Earth may give rise to rare, structurally bizarre diamonds on our planet, a new study suggests.