Why do we have a special day to celebrate space rocks? On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion over Tunguska in Siberia ...

NASA found asteroids with water. With these theories in mind, NASA scientists were studying two silicate-rich asteroids (Iris and Massalia) and found water on their surface using the retired ...

A tiny grain from asteroid Ryugu has revealed djerfisherite, a mineral that normally forms in scorching, oxygen-poor settings ...

We might not currently have any technology that would make a space elevator viable on Earth. But that doesn't mean they ...

UK lawmakers have learned there is no international protocol for making decisions over how to respond to a prospective ...

It turns out there’s a huge supply of water 400 miles underground stored in rock known as 'ringwoodite'. Scientists previously discovered that water is stored inside mantle rock in a sponge-like ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On June 27, 1997, NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft flew by an asteroid named 253 Mathilde ...

Masaaki Miyahara said it’s like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice - suggesting either a surprising local environment or ...

The tower would hang down from this asteroid via a super-strong cable system called the Universal Orbital Support System ...

The meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 7325 was initially proposed as a possible fragment of Mercury. However, its mineralogy ...

In a world obsessed with the apocalyptic hellfire of ‘carbon’ and the terror of an imperceptibly warmer climate nowhere near ...

There is great interest in the topic of how long humanity will be able to exist on the Earth. For many years people have ...