Tom Zega, a University of Arizona scientist who's worked on samples brought back from the asteroid Bennu, tells The Show more ...

“The most likely trigger was an impact on a larger asteroid parent of Ryugu, which fractured the rock and melted buried ice, ...

The famous asteroid, Ryugu, is drip-feeding scientists crucial information about its watery past. Using a tiny, 80-milligram sample of the near-Earth asteroid, researchers have discovered evidence ...

Small fragments of rock can reveal a lot when they’re analyzed with powerful laboratory instruments. New research into tiny ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

The discovery that water existed in liquid form a billion years after the parent body of Ryugu formed came from the study of ...

Hayabusa2 asteroid Ryugu samples reveal liquid water flowed through rock over one billion years after formation.

Near-Earth asteroid Ryugu was previously covered in flowing water, say researchers examining samples returned by JAXA's ...

Mysterious spherical droplets in meteorites aren’t just cosmic oddities. They’re evidence of planetary formation.

For years, scientists have treated the Moon as a relic — a silent witness to the Solar System’s ancient past, geologically ...

New research suggests that a mystery platinum signature found in Greenland’s ice may have come from a volcanic eruption in ...