The "parade of planets" in the evening sky continues. Starting the evening of Feb. 22, Mercury will join the lineup but it ...
Artist's conception of the DART spacecraft approaching the Didymos asteroid system before deflecting the Dimorphos moonlet ...
Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.
Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
The near-Earth asteroid Bennu poses a potential threat of collision with Earth. New research shows that an impact could cause drastic climate changes, leading to 'impact winter' and severe ozone ...
In a recent study, scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea ...
The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...
Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...
Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.
A new climate modeling study presents a new scenario of how climate and life on our planet would change in response to a potential future strike of a medium-sized (~500 m) asteroid.