Researchers Prove a Stadium-Sized Asteroid Slammed into the North Sea Triggering a 330-foot Tsunami
AI-generated image of the asteroid impact. Cracking a cold case is always tricky. But figuring out one from…
Meteors are more common than you might think. Here’s what happened with one in Houston – Houston Public Media
AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki Meteorite hunter Roberto Vargas, of Connecticut, displays one of the meteorites he found in Sharon…
DNA building blocks on asteroid Ryugu, bacteria that eat plastic waste, and more science news
Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off…
DNA’s Building Blocks May Have Arrived from Space, Asteroid Ryugu Samples Suggest
Samples returned by JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 mission from the C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases —…
NASA says asteroid 2024 YR will miss moon in 2032
NASA issued a welcomed all-clear Thursday, saying there’s now zero chance that asteroid 2024 YR will crash into…
Extremophile Bacteria May Hitch Rides on Asteroid Fragments
Earlier work has demonstrated that an extremophile bacterium species called Deinococcus radiodurans can survive the radiation, cold, and…
410-foot building-sized asteroid to pass Earth today | The object belongs to the Aten group asteroids | Inshorts – Inshorts
410-foot building-sized asteroid to pass Earth today | The object belongs to the Aten group asteroids | Inshorts InshortsA…
Fungi on International Space Station Show Surprising Metal Extraction Skills
As human space exploration pushes farther from Earth, the need for sustainable ways to obtain local resources is…
Space station experiment shows microbes extract metals from meteorites
Microbes could be the future space miners, helping humans survive on long-term missions by extracting mineral resources from…
New Lunar Regolith Analysis Challenges Meteorite-Water Theory
Planetary scientists analyzing oxygen isotopes in lunar soil from the Apollo mission sites conclude that meteorite bombardment over…
NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Spots Record-Breaking Asteroid in Pre-Survey Observations
As part of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory First Look event in June 2025, Rubin announced that…
Record-Setting Asteroid Found in Pre-Survey Data from Vera Rubin Observatory
Astronomers have detected an extraordinary asteroid, named 2025 MN45, in early data from the Legacy Survey of Space…