"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center The next stop for NASA's asteroid-hopping spacecraft Lucy is a space rock named Donaldjohanson ... very distinct from Bennu and Ryugu.

Jan. 29, 2025 — Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral ... 2025 — Researchers have unearthed two fossils, named Punk and Emo, revealing that ancient molluscs ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

NASA has proven that successful extraction of materials from asteroids is possible; this was most recently seen with the promising results of its OSIRIS-REx mission, which retrieved samples containing ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

On this day in 2023, the East Anglian Daily Times reported that an asteroid had been named in honour of pioneering Suffolk astronomer Alice Grace Cook, one of the first female fellows of the Royal ...

Not related to the infamous, fictitious Addams Family, but certainly named after its son Pugsley, is Mr. Pugsley Addams the Cat who boasts the Guinness World Record for a living domestic feline with ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that ... Many more such asteroids have been found, and they are generically named “Alindas,” after the prototypical first ...

Logan Capital Management Portfolio Manager Bill Fitzpatrick points to the much lower valuations of European stocks as well as ...