suggests that pyrene may have been the source of much of the carbon in our solar system. That hypothesis is also supported by ...

In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, ...

Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to ...

But it wasn’t a shooting star. It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid—priceless matter from ...

New research based on samples from asteroid Ryugu reveals that phosphorus-rich compounds could explain how Earth became ...

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

Hiding somewhere in the gloom of space, there is a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with our planet. If we don’t spot it and somehow thwart its arrival, it will pierce Earth’s ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects ...

Volcanic eruptions caused sulfates to gush into the air and turned Earth into an icebox. Later, dinosaurs came into this ...

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to Earth in 2029, according to a new study. The asteroid, named after the ...

These initiatives will directly support Asteroid Energy's ambitious goals for 2030, including achieving carbon neutrality and advancing the development of breakthrough technologies in energy storage, ...

suggests that pyrene may have been the source of much of the carbon in our solar system. That hypothesis is also supported by a recent finding that samples returned from the near-Earth asteroid ...