Astronomers have uncovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This staggering ...

Japanese researchers have discovered salt minerals on the asteroid Ryugu, suggesting liquid water may have once existed on ...

Edwards was part of the team that pitched the Lunar Trailblazer Mission to NASA in 2019. The goal was to find projects that could provide valuable insight with a more modest budget, with many ...

Asteroids, located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, were also proposed as potential progenitors of Earth's water. The study of cometary and asteroid rocks via meteorites–small ...

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably ... suggest that liquid saline water once existed within a parent body of Ryugu. Before examining the samples, the team expected that sample ...

A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a collision is not likely.

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth ...