Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

Asteroids, located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ... to standard hydrogen – scientists found that Earth’s water more closely matches that of “carbonaceous” asteroids ...

Ryugu, a 900-meter diameter asteroid in the Apollo belt ... They expect sodium carbonates and halite will be found in surface deposits on Ceres, in water plumes from Saturn's satellite Enceladus ...

Scientists have long wondered whether water once existed beyond Earth. Now, a major discovery has brought them closer to answering that question. Japanese researchers have found salt minerals on ...

Scientists have created a new 3D map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out ...

Johnson reports the crater can be seen today only in a 35-mile wide dome that marks exactly where the asteroid impacted.

The Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft carries a state-of-the-art camera to measure lunar surface temperature and confirm locations where water supplies may be found for future extraction ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu ... have not been found in any previous study of space rocks. This analysis revealed how evaporated water formed a briny ...

suggesting it was warm and had water on its surface billions of years ago. In 2023 scientists detected an asteroid called 33 Polyhymnia which could have an element denser than anything found on Earth.

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first discovered 2024 YR4 ... reflected by the asteroid’s surface is used to estimate how big ...