For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

In A Nutshell Ancient frozen chemistry: New analysis of pristine samples from asteroid Bennu suggests its amino acids formed ...

If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, we could not only witness the event, but also meteor storms like nothing we've ever ...

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

The latest asteroid to pass by the Earth will be back in a few years — it's not coming for us, but it may be on a collision course with the moon.

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Each December, the Geminids meteor shower paints the sky with spectacular streaks of light. The source of this stunning display is 3200 Phaethon, an asteroid unlike any other. This space rock is ...

Amino acids from asteroid Bennu suggest that some of life’s building blocks formed in icy conditions in the early solar system.

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

Migration‘ serves as the sequel to ‘Greenland‘ and takes place five years after the cataclysmic event triggered by the Clarke comet’s descent on Earth. Despite humanity’s best efforts to pull itself ...

STUNNED astronomers have spotted a new comet out in space – and it this could be a pretty special one. There’s a chance it’ll ...