DNA is much more than some weird-looking double helix – it’s the code at the heart of all life on Earth. Your cells use it to make proteins, as do the cells of the tree in your garden, the birds ...

The audacious plan was revealed by Los Angeles-based startup TransAstra. The “New Moon” mission is a project designed to rendezvous with a house-sized space rock weighing roughly 100 metric tonnes and ...

A multidisciplinary team led by Andrew Ryan has published new work that pins Bennu’s unexpectedly low thermal inertia on ...

These X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans released on March 17, 2026, give us a glimpse inside asteroid Bennu. They show ...

TransAstra has developed a plan to bag an asteroid and move it to a stable near-Earth orbit for processing. Reading time 2 minutes There are roughly 250 small, near-Earth asteroids teeming with ...

The Bennu's newly found rugged surface, after additional testing, could rewrite what we know about ancient asteroids.

A study published this week in the journal Nature Astronomy presents evidence that the asteroid Ryugu contains all five of the nucleotide bases that make up the genetic code. That includes the ...

Meteorite hunters hailing from states away are flocking to Northeast Ohio to find fragments of the seven-ton asteroid that shook up St. Patrick’s Day.

A six-foot, six-ton asteroid passed over northeastern Ohio on March 17, bringing the possibility of fragmented pieces scattered across a wide area.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 was awarded the 2025 Robert J. Collier Trophy for achieving the first successful ...

Meteorite hunters from far and wide are flocking to one Ohio county in search of their own piece of outer space.

Many residents of Northeastern Ohio were left shaken this Saint Patrick’s Day as a thundering “mystery boom” echoed through ...