Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — Stem cells grown in microgravity aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have unique qualities that could one day help accelerate new biotherapies and heal complex disease ...

Sure, they can keep a pair of too-large pants from sagging. But the right belt can also inject a dose of personality or whimsy into your outfit on days when you reach for your favorite white T ...

In a fascinating cosmic event, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is keeping an eye on a 500-foot asteroid set to pass by Earth on 24 October 2024. Although its size may seem concerning ...

WASHINGTON — The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs also brought opportunities for new life. Scientists have found that after the asteroid wiped out many plants, ants started farming fungi to help ...

If the impactors originated from a collision in the distant asteroid belt, the meteorites would have struck random locations on Earth, rather than falling along a narrow stripe, Tomkins explained.

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent The Perseid meteor shower over ...

MILAN — The European Space Agency (ESA) has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with an asteroid due to make a close approach to Earth in 2029. ESA signed a contract worth €63 ...

This "mini-moon" isn't a moon at all. It's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. At just 33 feet wide, it's about the size of a yellow school bus. The "mini-moon" got stuck in Earth's gravitational field when ...

NASA has issued a warning of a stadium-sized asteroid heading straight towards Earth at high speed. The asteroid about 710 feet wide, comparable to a stadium, will approach the blue planet on ...

Collisions in the main asteroid belt send rocky fragments flying haphazardly through space, with some of those eventually striking Earth. "While more than 70,000 meteorites are known, only 6% had ...

If future astronauts can reliably transform asteroid material into deep space sustenance, it could help future space missions be less reliant on receiving tons of food from Earth. There’s been a ...