In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist, kindly provided his measurements for use in this article during an interview with The Jerusalem Post.

In September 2023, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer ...

By using JWST, researchers obtained the highest-quality light spectrum from Polana in the near-infrared; this was compared to ...

While movies often show Earth’s destruction as easy, actual science reveals it would take extreme and rare cosmic events like ...

This ethos is reflected in the Pavilion itself. Inspired by the anatomy of the date palm tree and crafted through merging ...

Asteroids have long been described as the leftover pieces from the solar system’s early construction. They are like the ...

It’s been not quite two years since UA’s Osiris Rex spacecraft brought back a sample from the asteroid Bennu. Scientists ...

Scientists working with return samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu have uncovered a cosmic time ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...

For a brief few weeks in early 2025, astronomers were worried about the asteroid 2024 YR4. Discovered in late 2024 by an ...