Alaskans are pretty familiar with a variety of resources that are regularly mined in the state, but perhaps not too familiar ...

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...

A scoop of dust from an ancient time capsule hurtling through space has forced a rethink of how inert matter became all that ...

In the Factory Area, sand samples of the asteroids Itokawa and Ryugu collected by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa probes will be exhibited. Add TheJapanNews to your Google News feed.

An artist's rendering depicts the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft contacting the asteroid Bennu with the Touch-and-Go Sample Arm Mechanism.

This valuable study implicates a specific Wolbachia gene in driving the male-killing phenotype in a moth: This is a contribution to a growing body of literature from the authors in which they authors ...

Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky, airless remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system. Nasa releases images.