Asteroid Hosts All Ingredients for DNA and RNA
The basic ingredients for life as we know it are common in the cosmos. Scientists are still learning…
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, NASA reveal plans for blasting city-killing asteroids away from Earth
Rock-a-bye, baby. With scientists warning that Earth could be susceptible to thousands of undetected asteroids, Jeff Bezos’ space…
Meteorite hunters search Ohio for pieces of 7-ton space rock
MEDINA, Ohio (AP) — Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to…
Jeff Bezos Wants to Save Earth With This Freaky-Looking Probe
Rocket company Blue Origin is looking to add “defender of Earth” to its repertoire, developing a new mission…
Solving Asteroid Bennu’s Mysteries – NASA
These X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans released on March 17, 2026, give us a glimpse inside asteroid Bennu.…
Asteroid Ryugu Contains All 5 DNA and RNA Building Blocks, Study Shows
Early Earth was a brutally hot, volcanically active, radiation-bathed wasteland. Somehow amid this hostility, the necessary ingredients for…
A complete set of canonical nucleobases in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu
Extraction and purification of organic molecules from samples The Ryugu A0480 (11.9 mg) and C0370 (8.3 mg) aggregate samples were…
NASA’s DART Mission Changed Orbit of Asteroid Didymos Around Sun
New research reveals that when NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft intentionally impacted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos…
NASA’s DART Mission Did More Than Just Nudge an Asteroid, Study Says
In September 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft rammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos at nearly 15,000 miles per hour…
No chance asteroid will slam into the moon in 2032, NASA says
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA issued a welcomed all-clear Thursday, saying there’s now zero chance that asteroid 2024…
6-Million-Year-Old Meteorite Strike Created a Massive Field of Natural Glass in Brazil
Scientists uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil—a rare type of natural glass forged in the aftermath…
Did Life Hitch a Ride to Earth? Scientists Smashed the Living Crap Out of Microbes to Find Out
The tiniest life forms are also among Earth’s toughest, from near-invincible tardigrades to extremophilic microbes that thrive near…