Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...

Sample exchanges are common among space powers. In recent years, the US and Japan have traded asteroid samples, and last year China and Russia shared their moon samples just. In 1978, the US offered ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

Scientists have unveiled the full geological map of Zealandia, Earth's hidden eighth continent. Analysis of seabed samples revealed a massive volcanic region that contributed to the breakup of the ...

MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

Anna Surtayeva is a local mom of two who has led an extraordinary career as a space robotics engineer. Her work has contributed to groundbreaking space missions, including those involving the ...

A team of researchers investigated the formation of the massive South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, discovering its age by analysing a lunar meteorite found in Algeria in 2005 ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...