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…
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 —…
Bus-sized asteroid to make close flyby of Earth
A newly discovered bus-sized asteroid is set to fly past Earth late on March 12, passing closer than…
Asteroids Throw Debris at Their Moons, DART Reveals
Around 15 percent of near-Earth asteroids have small moons, which suggests binary systems are fairly common. Many of…
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…
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…
Scientists Find Presolar Stardust in Samples from Asteroid Bennu
Researchers have detected an unexpectedly high abundance of presolar grains — dust from stellar explosions predating our Solar…
Gum-Like Substance Found in Samples from Asteroid Bennu
This gum-like material — never seen before in space — was likely formed in the early days of…