Earth, asteroid

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost immediately.
Samples returned from an asteroid contain a surprising abundance of the basic ingredients of life. They were discovered to be ...
The “asteroid” wasn’t a space rock after all. It was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk launched into space to much ...
PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...
Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...
Why does its southern hemisphere rise significantly above the smoother northern plains? A groundbreaking study using seismic ...