An enriched methane D/H ratio in the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS
Gourier, D. et al. Extreme deuterium enrichment of organic radicals in the Orgueil meteorite: revisiting the interstellar interpretation?…
Hera Closes In on Asteroid Pair to Study the Impact Damage of NASA’s DART Strike
In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft violently smashed into a tiny asteroid as a test of planetary defense.…
Tiny Grains From Asteroid Bennu Reveal How Jupiter Shaped the Early Solar System
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descends toward asteroid Bennu during a 2020 rehearsal for sample collection. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona…
Asteroid Bennu Came From an Unexpected Corner of the Solar System
Six years after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reached out and snagged a sample from the asteroid Bennu, scientists may…
NASA’s Moon Orbiter Spots New, ‘Once-in-Century’ Moon Crater
It started as a routine data-quality check. But as Robert Wagner, a scientist with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter…
Parent body of asteroid Ryugu formed early in solar system history, study finds
A research team from Hokkaido University and other institutions said Friday that the parent celestial body of the…
Kilometre-scale Jovian moon characterized for a potential JUICE flyby
Minor Planet Center. Natural Satellites Ephemeris Service (IAU Minor Planet Center, accessed 28 May 2026); https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/NatSats/NaturalSatellites.html Sheppard, S.…
China Wants to Slam a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid at Mach 26
Following the success of NASA’s DART mission, Chinese researchers are planning a new planetary defense test that they…
Meteorite strike of New Jersey home reveals life clues
View larger. | Meteorite strike of New Jersey home! Here’s the space rock itself. It crashed through the…
A tiny universe in a bottle reveals clues to the origins of life
A PhD student in Sydney has produced cosmic dust from scratch by recreating a small piece of the…
A tiny universe in a bottle reveals clues to the origins of life
A PhD student in Sydney has produced cosmic dust from scratch by recreating a small piece of the…
Scientists identify the rare meteorite that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago
A rare type of meteorite known as a CO chondrite was likely the object that slammed into Earth…