A new analysis of asteroid Ryugu hints that the "potentially hazardous" space rock once had flowing water in its core, ...

Water may have flowed on the asteroid that birthed the space rock Ryugu a billion years after it formed, much later than ...

An asteroid the size of a skyscraper is approaching Earth at a sprightly 24,136 miles per hour—and will be at its closest to us in two days' time. The space rock—dubbed "2025 FA22"—is a sizeable 520 ...

IT Home reported on September 11 that a new study has found that liquid water flowed on the surface of the near-Earth ...

Learn how fragments from asteroid Ryugu provide evidence of water flowing within asteroids formed in the early Solar System.

The study revealed that liquid water still existed on Ryugu one billion years after its parent body formed. This conclusion ...

SwRI scientists reviewed spectral data of sample material taken from near-Earth asteroids Ryugu and Bennu (pictured above) and compared them with spectral data of main belt asteroid Polana from the ...

Marseille, France and San Francisco, CA, December 9, 2020 –– The world’s first planetary defense team staffed by citizen astronomers has completed its first research mission: Detect and model a ...

A recently observed object called 2025 PN7 was found orbiting near the Earth. The quasi-moon is expected to accompany our planet in a similar orbit for 60 years.