Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system and its gravity strongly influences the movement of asteroids and comets. While it can capture or deflect some dangerous objects, it can also disturb ...

Chinese scientists working with just five grams of lunar soil from the moon’s far side have produced a cascade of findings ...

Scientists studying tiny samples from the asteroid Ryugu have uncovered new clues about the magnetic environment that existed ...

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All five of the canonical nucleobases – the underpinnings of DNA, RNA and life on Earth – have been found in samples from the asteroid Ryugu ...

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 ...

NASA’s DART mission proved that a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid system in space, offering a real test of planetary defense. NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft changed the ...

For decades, astronomers have struggled to differentiate giant planets from brown dwarfs, a class of objects more massive ...

My fixation on a small, desolate locale in the heart of the Sahara Desert started with a single line buried in a 630-page ...

Two planets crashed into one another in a violent, chaotic collision that astronomers recently witnessed 11,000 light-years away from Earth.