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 team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

Researchers in Japan have found that the parent asteroid of Ryugu, a near-Earth asteroid, retained water in ice form for billions of years, and this could challenge previously existing theories on how ...

Astronomers have uncovered a surprising new structure in our region of the galaxy, an interstellar tunnel that appears to ...

A detailed study of a cosmic mystery known as "The Accident" has now provided new insight into the formation of clouds on ...

An unusual situation has arisen in which the government gave up on submitting to the Diet legislation to promote solar panel recycling, due to deficiencies in its content. Alternative measures to ...

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

Hayabusa2 asteroid Ryugu samples reveal liquid water flowed through rock over one billion years after formation.

Today, the near-Earth asteroid known as Ryugu is bone dry. But new research suggests that the over half mile-long space rock ...

The UK Fireball Alliance is hopeful walkers will stumble across the space rocks which fell in the Highlands in July.

Gamechanging new technology to make energy from hydrogen is on the way to being plugged in to Stroud-based Ecotricity 's power network after the firm gave financial backing to a cutting-edge venture ...

The bright meteor was witnessed by by some Scots as it streaked across the sky in the early hours of Thursday July 3.