The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

A team of researchers have now modelled what will happen to the planet, climate and humans if this asteroid crashes on Earth ...

Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of ...

These asteroids are rich in carbon and hydrated clay minerals, possibly sharing similarities to the most primitive group of meteorites on Earth, known as carbonaceous chondrites. Unlike meteorite ...

The team using the ALS examined a sample from the surface of a carbonaceous-type asteroid, Ryugu. They expected this asteroid to be similar to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. Ryugu is ...

“The asteroid’s composition is consistent with that of carbonaceous asteroids that formed outside of Jupiter’s orbit during the formation of the solar system,” said Dr Mario Fischer ...

Before the mission visited Bennu, scientists knew that the asteroid was probably carbonaceous — rich in carbon, and containing water molecules locked up in clay minerals. But until the samples came ...

New research overseen by a Rowan University professor may help support that theory.

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...

The asteroid was identified as a C-type, or carbonaceous, asteroid. This new research refutes earlier claims that a comet caused the extinction event. Instead, it confirms the asteroid's impact as ...