A student has unraveled a long-standing cosmic enigma concerning some of our solar system’s most peculiar objects: icy ...

He thought he’d struck gold in Victoria’s historic fields. Instead, a stubborn, unbreakable rock that defied saws, acid, and a sledgehammer hid a secret billions of years in the making.

A total lunar eclipse is the highlight of the month. For planetary action, Jupiter is well placed most of the night and there ...

Images of Mars swirling in rust-colored clouds fill the lobby screens of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai. School groups cringe as they shuffle ...

To uncover the history of our solar system, it is necessary to study the dynamic evolution of the ancient solar nebula materials. These materials interacted and coevolved with the weak but widespread ...

Samples from Ryugu, a small, near-Earth asteroid, preserve natural remanent magnetization (NRM) from the early history of the solar system. However, despite multiple studies, there is currently no ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

Paleomagnetic analysis of 28 Ryugu asteroid particles reveals stable magnetization acquired within millions of years of solar ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer headed for Earth, but the fear it caused has astronomers worried about scare tones in the media. The asteroid initially had an approximate 3% chance for impact with ...

The National Center for Wildlife (NCW) reaffirmed its commitment to protecting wildlife and preserving natural habitats, ...

Helium-3 dating reveals new plankton species emerged within thousands—and sometimes just 2,000—years after the dinosaur-killing impact, showing life recovered far faster than assumed.

The "city killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth or the moon when it whizzes by in 2032, the latest James Webb Space Telescope observations confirm.