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

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 ...

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.

YR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit ...

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 ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

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 ...

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