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

A monumental discovery has revealed that an asteroid struck the East Coast of North America roughly 35 million years ago, leaving behind the continent’s largest known impact crater, now buried beneath ...

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

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

Scientists have made a surprising discovery inside a tiny grain from the asteroid Ryugu that could change what we thought we ...

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

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

Current evidence suggests that at least some of Earth's water was brought to the planet by asteroid impacts. However, this only accounts for some of the water on the surface.

The discovery marks the first time water has been found on the surfaces of asteroids. Researchers found traces of material that could be water on three large asteroids: 7 Iris, 18 Melpomene, and ...

The data that detected water on the surface of the asteroid came from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for ... The hope is that this would further confirm the data they found. Stay Connected. Like Us.

(CNN) — Water molecules have been detected on the surface of asteroids for the first time, proving that these remnants from the formation of our solar system aren’t just dried-up space rocks ...

Astronomers have detected water molecules on the surface of asteroids, a surprising find given that the space rocks were thought to be “completely dry.” CNN values your feedback 1.