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

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, delivered to Earth in 2023 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

The Ramgarh crater is located near Ramgarh village in Baran district, southeastern Rajasthan, and is widely believed to be ...

In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

In 1883, a comet capable of ending life on Earth narrowly missed impact. Only one man on the planet noticed, a Mexican scientist.

Researchers using neutron scanning technology have discovered a hidden reservoir of ancient water locked inside the Martian ...

The Alpha Centaurids are active between January 31 and February 20, with peak activity on February 8. Stargazers can witness a chain of bluish or yellowish-white streaks of fire at around six meteors ...

A newly tracked asteroid could strike the Moon in 2032, triggering bright flashes, lunar debris, and rare meteor storms on ...

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

A new study has revealed that the iconic Black Beauty meteorite contains much more hidden water than previously suspected.

Planetary defence research often sits between modelling and imagination, with few chances to test real materials under realistic conditions. A new stu.

Building on this discovery, Chinese scientists have developed a new lunar crater chronology model. The model allows for precise age estimates of unsampled lunar regions using only crater density ...