Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 21, 2026
ExLabs has partnered with Japan's Chiba Institute of Technology and its Planetary Exploration Research Center t...
London, UK (SPX) Jan 08, 2026
Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new experimental study that shows iron rich asteroids can...
London, UK (SPX) Jan 09, 2026
Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a study showing that iron-rich asteroids can withstand much...
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 09, 2026
China's space sector completed 93 orbital launch missions in 2025, the highest annual total the nation has recorded....
Like a game of cosmic bumper cars, scientists think the early days of our solar system were a time of violent turmoil, with planetesimals, asteroids, ...
In a historical milestone, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope witnessed the catastrophic collisions in a nearby planetary system....
Atlanta GA (SPX) Dec 16, 2025
When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they f...
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Dec 11, 2025
Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbour valuable met...
The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of ...
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 21, 2025
Astronomers recently discovered the 40 000th near-Earth asteroid! These space rocks range from a few metres to a fe...
Astronomers recently discovered the 40 000th near-Earth asteroid! These space rocks range from a few metres to a few kilometres in size and are on orb...
NASA will host a live event at 3 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Nov. 19, to share imagery of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS collected by a number of the agency...
When asteroids hit the Moon, the impacts carve out craters and with enough energy and pressure, melt parts of the rocky surface. Often, the white hot,...
