An Asteroid “Double Disaster” Struck Germany in the Miocene
A Gothic church rises high above the medieval town of Nördlingen, Germany. But...
Humans could move to this floating asteroid belt colony in the next 15 years, astrophysicist says
Now more than ever, space agencies and starry-eyed billionaires have their minds fixed on finding...
Remote sensing data sheds light on when and how asteroid Ryugu lost its water — ScienceDaily
Last month, Japan's Hayabusa2 mission brought home a cache of rocks collected from a near-Earth...
Mysterious asteroid the size of a dwarf planet is lurking in our solar system
There's a giant asteroid somewhere out in the solar system, and it hurled a big...
Japanese spacecraft’s gifts: Asteroid chips like charcoal
This photo provided Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020, by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), shows...
Predicting the Unique Shape of Craters on Asteroid (16) Psyche
Asteroid (16) Psyche, the objective of NASA’s Psyche mission to be launched in...
Researchers find that timing of mass extinctions lines up with asteroid impacts and massive volcanic eruptions — ScienceDaily
Mass extinctions of land-dwelling animals -- including amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds -- follow a...
Hayabusa2’s asteroid dirt may hold clues to the early solar system
For the first time, scientists are about to get their (carefully gloved) hands on asteroid...
Asteroid Ryugu dust delivered to Earth; NASA astrobiologists prepare to probe it
A zoomed-out image of a speck of Murchison meteorite (about 4 micrograms) mounted onto gold...
Japan space agency hails return of asteroid dust on Earth
A JAXA scientist holds the capsule with samples collected from a distant asteroid that were...