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Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually.

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers, and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

Analysis of the impact craters on Ryugu using the spacecraft Hayabusa 2’s remote sensing image data has illuminated the geological history of the Near-Earth asteroid. A research group led by Assistant ...

Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...

Asteroids might seem like peaceful drifters suspended in space, but they’re really disturbed, spinning and tumbling in ...

The Apophis asteroid, also called the “God of Chaos,” is expected to fly by Earth in April of 2029. But it is also projected to come closer than any asteroid in recorded history which has caused NASA ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

A recent study using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled new insights into the mysterious asteroid 16 Psyche. Once thought to be a metallic remnant of a planetesimal’s core, ...