First, a piece of basalt simulating an asteroid was secured in place, and opposite it was a target material resembling early ...

A striking new image of the strange interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has revealed it is growing a tail, offering more proof that ...

Later, I researched and learned that they were referring to carbonaceous chondrites, which are those meteorites that, when ...

Object 3I/ATLAS is now too far from Earth to aim a telescope at, but prior observations showed some unusual behavior. The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought ...

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant origin Jack Tamisiea A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample ...

To become the industry-standard platform for proactive formation damage management, significantly reducing non-productive time (NPT) and completion costs by transforming raw operational data into ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Galway, has hailed the "remarkable discovery" of a newly detected planet, WISPIT 2b. At such a critical moment in US ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years But RPS is expensive, costing ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using polarization of light instead of traditional spectra, they uncovered evidence ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, harbored the right conditions to ...