Nov. 4, 2024 — Stem cells grown in microgravity aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have unique qualities that could one day help accelerate new biotherapies and heal complex disease ...

Material harvested from asteroids could be used to sustain astronauts during long-duration space missions. Researchers from Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration have ...

Although both asteroids will be close in astronomical terms, they will still pass safely by Earth at several million kilometres away. NASA's continuous monitoring of near-Earth objects (NEOs ...

A new study is investigating ways to closely examine the trajectories of well-documented asteroids to hopefully detect anomalies that could provide evidence of such a force. Although the study ...

The vast majority of these NEOs are asteroids—most of which are small—although there are a handful of comets included in this category as well. Stock image: Artist's illustration of an ...

The Lego Atari 2600 is a wonderful display piece for retro enthusiasts, and right now you can get this 2,532-piece building ...

There’s been a lot of interest around developing technologies for mining rare-earth metals from asteroids as they pass on by. But a new study published in the International Journal of ...

Here’s how it works. A swarm of interplanetary dust, rocks, comets and asteroids thought to be responsible for two famous impacts here on Earth has been found to be not quite as menacing as ...

However, a recent hunt for large asteroids within the Taurid Swarm, dubbed the “Doomsday” asteroid swarm, revealed fewer than astronomers expected. “Fortunately, we found that it’s likely ...

MILAN — After collecting the first-ever samples from the far side of the moon, China is now setting its sights on even more distant destinations — Mars, asteroids and Jupiter, positioning ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has alerted about three asteroids, 2024 SM4, 2024 TX5, and 2024 TA7, set to make close approaches to Earth on October 13. Despite their proximity, they pose no threat.

Scientists know that while some of these meteorites come from the Moon and Mars, the majority come from asteroids. But two separate studies published in Nature today have gone a step further.