JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA.

Krypton, the noble gas better known for its fictional association with Superman, has become one of the most telling chemical tracers in planetary science. By measuring krypton isotopes locked inside ...

A close-up of the surface of asteroid Ryugu. (MASCOT/DLR/JAXA) A new analysis of samples collected from asteroid Ryugu has yielded all five canonical nucleobases that make up RNA and DNA. It's not the ...

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Astronomers have reportedly discovered a skyscraper-sized asteroid moving through our solar system at a near record-breaking pace. The asteroid, named 2025 SC79, circles the sun once every 128 days, ...

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Citizen scientists reviewing NASA data discovered unusually high Solar flare rates, helping researchers better understand the ...

The Solar System is a weird place filled with incredible physics and geological oddities that often break down in human terms ...

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Our solar system consists of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, as well as countless asteroids and comets, that are gravitationally bound to the Sun.

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying itself, melting large portions of our planet’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later pulled ...