Astronomers have found a 710-metre-wide asteroid that spins once every 1.9 minutes, so fast that it should have spun itself ...

JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA.

Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off the surface? Six years on ...

A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases—the molecular "letters" of life—have been detected in samples from the ...

A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, ...

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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Was it thunder? A falling tree? Maybe an earthquake? Nobody was quite sure what to make of the ...

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Asteroid Ryugu or Asteroid 162173 Ryugu is the most important rock in our solar system after following a successful ...

It's proposing two approaches: either shoot dangerous asteroids with an ion cannon — or ram it out of orbit. The post Jeff ...

Two landers from a private US company will be part of an armada to asteroid Apophis when it flies past Earth in 2029. Apophis ...

TransAstra has developed a plan to bag an asteroid and move it to a stable near-Earth orbit for processing. Reading time 2 ...