Tiny shavings from a single meteorite could completely overturn our understanding of how the solar system formed, after the space rock turned out to be older than expected. Previous research suggests ...

The study revealed that liquid water still existed on Ryugu one billion years after its parent body formed. This conclusion ...

A team of researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, discovered that liquid water once flowed on the asteroid ...

The Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft visited the asteroid Ryugu, which had flowing water for over a billion years. This unexpected discovery, made when the spacecraft collected and returned samples, adds ...

A high-precision time measurement system based on the radioactive decay of manganese-53 was used to determine the precise age ...

One of the studies, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows that ice inside the parent asteroid melted and reacted ...

Astronomers have been racing to get a better look at 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious object with interstellar origins that has defied ...

The eyes of every astronomer widened this year when an interstellar traveler was discovered in our solar system.