We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Research on Ryugu samples indicates a faint magnetic field within 3 million years of solar system formation, impacting ...

Could asteroid grains be at the origin of the first building blocks of life on Earth? This is what recent discoveries from space dust suggest. These fragments, brought back by a Japanese probe, ...

In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, ...

The asteroid burst into a fireball that lit the skies at 3:54 a.m. PT on October 22, 2024. Scientists estimated that the energy released by the asteroid upon impact with the atmosphere would be ...

Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to ...

Credit: Kochi/JAXA New research based on samples from asteroid Ryugu reveals that phosphorus-rich compounds could explain how Earth became habitable. These findings emphasize the importance of ...

Microscope image of one of the small fragments of asteroid 162173 Ryugu studied by scientists at the Advanced Photon Source. This fragment is roughly 400 microns in diameter, or about the width of ...

The first asteroid, 2024 TB2, measures about 110 feet, roughly the size of a small airplane. It will safely pass Earth at a distance of approximately 731,000 miles on October 26, 2024. Despite being ...

It was 50 to 200 times the size of the dinosaur-killing asteroid. It boiled the oceans, drove global darkness for years to decades, and stoked unimaginable tsunamis (thousands of meters deep ...

Estimated to be between 120 to 270 meters wide—roughly the size of a 70-story skyscraper—asteroid 2020 WG is considered a medium-sized Near-Earth Object (NEO). Listen to Story An asteroid impact could ...