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…
A strange circle on satellite maps turned out to be a 390-million-year-old impact crater
An amateur astronomer searching satellite maps for possible camping locations in Quebec ended up spotting something far more…
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…
NASA Study Finds Near-Earth Asteroid Is Actually Comet
New research led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has revealed the identity of…
Meteorite That Crashed Into New Jersey Home Contains Rare Ingredients of Life
Two years ago, a meteorite plummeted through Earth’s atmosphere and crashed into a New Jersey home. Now, analysis…