An asteroid the size of a 10-story building could collide with the Moon ...

Chang’e 5 lunar samples analyzed with quantum sensors clarify how ancient lunar dynamo activity and asteroid impacts jointly produced the Moon’s remnant magnetism.

Research findings are available online in the Astrophysical Journal. The original story “ Student made cosmic dust in the lab revealing life’s early chemical origins ” is published in The Brighter ...

A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust ...

By creating a 'little bit of the Universe in a bottle' in her lab, a PhD student in physics has reverse-engineered the ...

What if violent asteroid impacts actually jump-started life on Earth? Explore a dramatic theory. What if asteroids, long feared as destroyers of life, were key to our existence? Explore a ...

A doctoral researcher in Australia has successfully recreated cosmic dust inside a laboratory, offering a new way to study how the chemical foundations of life may have formed long before Earth ...

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) fragmented after its October 2025 solar approach, with telescope observations documenting multiple ...

Discover the latest findings on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, from rare methane detections to high-resolution Hubble images, as it begins its final exit from our solar system.

A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments simulating interstellar space show that simple amino acids can link into peptides, ...

Mercury, Venus, and Saturn put on an early-evening display in the west, while Jupiter dominates the rest of the night. Jupiter features many events involving its four major moons that are well worth ...