Every mystical quest features a journey riddled with challenges, a cast of colourful characters, and a treasure trove that unlocks more intrigue. The Meteorite Hunters: On the Trail of ...

We have to think outside of the box because what has been done to find primordial black holes previously hasn’t worked,” said ...

Why do we have a special day to celebrate space rocks? On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion over Tunguska in Siberia ...

This match with Itokawa is crucial because it allows us to connect what we see in space with what lands on Earth," Ray said.

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do ...

Near Earth asteroid Itokawa is a rubble pile that formed more than four billion years ago, a new study found. So, these asteroids might be resilient to demise.

Derived from so-called S-type asteroids such as Itokawa, this type makes up about 87% of meteorites collected on earth. Very few of them have been found to contain water-bearing minerals.

But a recent study published Nature Astronomy hopes to challenge this longstanding theory about asteroids, as a pair of researchers examine traces of sodium chloride, also known as table salt, in ...

But Itokawa appears to be an exception to that rule. "The result we got is it's at least 4.2 billion years old, so almost as old as the solar system itself which is 4.56 billion [years old]," said ...

In fact, Itokawa, which scientists have long believed is a giant collection of space rocks and not one large lump, could be as old as the solar system itself. Itokawa's considerable age shocked ...

Due to being a rubble pile, Itokawa is around 40 percent porous. In other words, almost half of it is made of voids, so constant collisions will simply crush the gaps between the rocks, instead of ...