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

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged when a powerful extraterrestrial object slammed into Earth about 6.3 million ...

To uncover the history of our solar system, it is necessary to study the dynamic evolution of the ancient solar nebula materials. These materials ...

Forgot what science-fiction has told you, flying through an asteroid belt would be a major challenge for anyone.

Asteroid mining companies are finally getting off the ground, and that is raising some concerns about the impact those activities will have on the space environment. A new paper published in Acta ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate ...

NASA confirms the flyby of a 410-foot asteroid, 2025 YU15, moving at a speed of 21,306 miles per hour today. Despite its proximity, scientists assure it poses no immediate threat.

With the Earth moving between the moon and the sun, its giant shadow changing the moon's reflected glow from ivory to a reddish color.

Now, scientists from the University of Oxford offer a resolution to the debate, reporting the moon could have experienced bursts of extremely strong magnetism long ago, but that these episodes would ...

A colossal asteroid strike about 6.3 million years ago scattered molten debris across what is now south-eastern Brazil, leaving behind a vast field of natural glass that researchers say ranks among ...

Samples from Ryugu, a small, near-Earth asteroid, preserve natural remanent magnetization (NRM) from the early history of the solar system.

On 14 February 2026, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, Kelly ...