Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

By Alimat Aliyeva Japanese scientists from Kyoto University have discovered evidence of salt minerals on the asteroid R ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid millions of miles away. The asteroid in question, ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.

To avoid having this happen with materials acquired from asteroids in space, scientists from Kyushu University in Japan carefully analyzed their ... nitrogen and ammonia than samples from asteroid ...

To avoid having this happen with materials acquired from asteroids in space, scientists from Kyushu University in Japan carefully ... than samples from asteroid Ryugu and most meteorites ...

The Japanese Hayabusa2 mission landed on the asteroid Ryugu in 2019 and returned samples back to Earth the next year. Credit: JAXA Hayabusa 2 Last September, the AAS raised the issue of deep-space ...