sector. The company has dedicated its resources to mastering the logistical hurdles of identifying and interacting with asteroids for potential resource acquisition. The strategy behind this mission is intentionally stark. By creating a one-way data...

Study shows tunas developed their large size, rapid speed, and warm‑blooded traits gradually over 50 million years. New research from Yale University shows that the iconic size, speed, and warm‑blooded nature of tunas developed gradually over roughly...

Cambridge researchers argue orbital solar power, asteroid mining and space manufacturing are nearing profitability as launch costs drop 96% since 1960. Researchers at Cambridge University argue that commercial prospects such as orbital solar farms,...

Cambridge researchers claim orbital solar power, asteroid mining and space manufacturing are becoming economically viable as launch costs drop 96% since 1960. Cambridge scholars argue that low‑orbit solar farms, asteroid extraction and off‑world...

Ancient moon‑far‑side rocks upend theories on early solar system asteroid impacts, reshaping our view of planetary history. Samples retrieved from the Moon’s far side have reshaped the timeline of asteroid impacts, indicating a steady decline over...

can produce organic molecules with distinct isotopic signatures. Another setting was warmer and wetter. Inside some asteroids, heat from radioactive elements melted ice and created liquid water. This allowed aqueous chemistry, including Strecker-type...

Study finds the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs was a rare CO chondrite, with fine atmospheric debris—not sulfur—driving the global extinction. A new analysis of nickel isotopes trapped in the thin clay layer that marks the Cretaceous‑Paleogene...

theories for how Phobos and Deimos came to orbit the Red Planet. One school of thought suggests the moons are passing asteroids captured by Mars’ gravitational pull, while the other posits that they are the result of debris ejected into orbit following...

A massive crater on Mars’ moon Phobos may finally reveal if the mysterious satellite is a captured asteroid or debris from the Red Planet. For decades, Phobos has remained one of the solar system’s most enigmatic bodies. As a small, irregularly shaped...

Scientists are combining AI and nanotechnology to detect potential signs of life in space by analyzing single-molecule electrical patterns in meteorites. Researchers at the University of Osaka have unveiled a novel electrical sensing technique that...

Ancient Australian rocks have revealed evidence of a mysterious meteorite impact that struck Earth during the planet’s infancy. Geologists have unearthed evidence of a massive asteroid strike in Western Australia that dates back 3.47 billion years,...

the notion that key ingredients for early biology may have been forged in space and later incorporated into comets and asteroids. Interstellar Cloud Yields First Genuine Sugar An international collaboration headed by astronomer Izaskun Jiménez‑Serra of...

system. NASA is backing a novel spacecraft concept that could fundamentally change how we prospect for materials on moons, asteroids, and planets. Known as the Interworld Slingshot Resource Surveys, this project aims to detect mineral deposits from...

in water-efficient agriculture, aggressive recycling protocols, or even the complex task of importing water from nearby asteroids. Estimated power requirements for different activities in future lunar settlements, including domestic use, agriculture,...

the definitive start of life itself. During its earliest epoch, Earth was subjected to a violent and continuous barrage of asteroids, comets, and other planetary debris. This relentless bombardment generated enough thermal energy to effectively...

Scientists crack the mystery of an indestructible red rock from Australia’s gold fields after it survived saws, acid, drills, and a sledgehammer. A heavy, reddish stone unearthed in the clay of Maryborough Regional Park in 2015 has been confirmed as a...

A rare meteorite that hit a New Jersey home provides scientists a pristine glimpse of life‑origin materials. When a meteorite smashed through a residential roof in New Jersey, it delivered a remarkably pristine fragment of a rare carbonaceous...

Researchers have discovered a long-lost orbital route to Mars that is so efficient, current chemical rockets lack the capability to reach it. New research suggests that a long-discarded orbital path from a forgotten near-Earth asteroid could hold the...

organic compounds offering clues about pre‑biotic chemistry. “We know we have organic molecules in the solar system — in asteroids, for example,” Sinibaldi noted. “But how they came to perform specific functions like they do in biological matter is a...

compounds synthesized on icy dust grains can become incorporated into protoplanetary disks, later preserved in comets, asteroids, and other small bodies that deliver material to emerging planets. Demonstrating that a complex sugar can arise before a...