Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Scientists had high hopes for the sample of asteroid Ryugu collected by the Japanese Hayabusa-2 probe. The actual findings ...

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research.

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Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

Dante Lauretta, a professor at the University of Arizona and the OSIRIS-REx principal investigator, speaks at a press conference after a sample of Bennu had been transported to Earth. NASA/Keegan ...

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Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, after a seven-year journey, has resulted in the collection of samples from the asteroid Bennu, promising to unveil secrets about the formation of our solar system. These ...

A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the spacecraft approach and touch down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles away from Earth, to collect a sample on ...

A 2014 study found that the asteroid had roughly a 0.037 percent chance of colliding with Earth between 2175 and 2199. But until now, simulations have run into issues beyond September 2135.