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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Recent research has significantly advanced our understanding of asteroids, particularly the carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu, which was studied through samples returned by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft.