Early this year, a surprise space rock made headlines around the globe when the International Asteroid Warning Network ...

The finding supports the theory that asteroids could have delivered the necessary components for life to begin on Earth and ...

Amateur astronomer Tony Dunn must have been particularly impressed by the November crop of new asteroids to have put the 18 ...

"I'm becoming much more optimistic that we may be able to find life beyond Earth, even in our own solar system." ...

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Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

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Scientists have just uncovered shocking new evidence of ancient cosmic explosions — called touchdown airbursts — that ...

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We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start life, and researchers have just found the missing ingredient: sugar ...

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