Recent papers published in Nature and Nature Astronomy found life’s building blocks on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

Icy comets can supply water and oxygen to tidally locked e Feb 2025 research shows asteroid impacts could cool Earth and deplete ozo Studies provide insights into planetary habitability and potential ...

Did you know that Canadian feet were actually the first to touch down on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission?

On April 12 and 13, a pair of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) erupted from the surface of the sun; as a result, when their electrically charged particles hit Earth’s atmosphere this week ...

Because the moon lacks a magnetic field like Earth's, the barren lunar surface is constantly bombarded by energetic particles from the sun; these particles make up the solar wind. Scientists have ...

The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) was established in 1943 is a Department of Energy funded lab managed by Los Alamos National Security LLC. The primary purposes of LANL are involve ...

Neutrinos are subatomic particles with nearly zero mass while also carrying no charge. The particle interacts very weakly with matter, allowing it to travel to large amounts of matter without ...

People with plaque in the blood vessels of their neck have a higher amount of tiny plastic particles in those vessels compared to people with healthy arteries. This increase was significantly ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has sent back photos of a distant space rock from its second asteroid flyby—and it looks pretty weird. The asteroid Donaldjohanson—named after the paleoanthropologist ...

To this day, remnants of the historic Apollo lunar missions exist on the moon; the OSIRIS-REx probe recently placed its robotic fingerprint on a clumpy asteroid called Bennu; multiple rovers have ...

NASA’s mission, in a way, is already in progress. The agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission—having successfully visited the asteroid Bennu in 2020 and returning a sample three years later—has now ...