The Cincinnati Observatory posted a video of a fireball spotting in Cincinnati skies and reported the observatory’s first confirmed micrometeorite.

A man searching for gold in Maryborough Regional Park, Victoria, Australia has stumbled on something far more ancient - a ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start ...

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.

Asteroid Bennu's sample delivered a shock: ribose and glucose were found, confirming the widespread presence of life's fundamental building blocks in the early Solar System.

A group of researchers from Japan and the United States have detected six types of sugar in rock and dust samples from an asteroid that could show ingredients for life existed outside Earth.

"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate ...

Bennu is a primitive rock. It has remained mostly unchanged since the birth of our solar system around 4.6 billion years ago. On September 24, 2023, dust and mineral samples were hauled to Earth by ...

Asteroid Bennu was already a time capsule from the dawn of the Solar System, but the first detailed look at its returned ...

The pristine interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is theorised to be covered in ice cryovolcanoes, challenging all models of comet ...

It is good to be back and there is plenty to explore in the December night sky. Starting on Tuesday is the comet C/2025 T1 Atlas, which makes its closest approach to the sun. There is a supermoon on ...