The Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft visited the asteroid Ryugu, which had flowing water for over a billion years. This unexpected discovery, made when the spacecraft collected and returned samples, adds ...

“The most likely trigger was an impact on a larger asteroid parent of Ryugu, which fractured the rock and melted buried ice, ...

In May 2021, OSIRIS-REx began its journey back to Earth carrying dust from Bennu - a rubble-pile asteroid older than Earth ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

Near-Earth asteroid Ryugu was previously covered in flowing water, say researchers examining samples returned by JAXA's ...

A ONCE-in-a-millennium mega asteroid will be visible to billions without the need for any equipment as it glides past Earth.

Tom Zega, a University of Arizona scientist who's worked on samples brought back from the asteroid Bennu, tells The Show more ...

Asteroid Apophis will skim closer than satellites in 2029—visible to the naked eye, reshaped by Earth’s gravity, and turning ...

A team of researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, discovered that liquid water once flowed on the asteroid ...

Have you ever thought about a career in space science? Dr Helena Bates shares what it’s like to be a researcher of meteorites and gives advice on getting into this profession.

When somewhat larger rocks stray into the solar system, they are meteoroids, and if a bit bigger, they come from asteroids or from comets. Because most of those tiny bits of dust end up burning up and ...