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The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient world slept only 6.5 hours a night.

Seeing the invisible. That’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs are trying to do with data ...

TN17 is estimated to be around 540 feet in diameter, which is greater than the height of the Pyramid of Giza in Egypt (449 ...

Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...

NASA's Lucy probe will journey to an asteroid that has remained untouched for 150 million years, potentially revealing ...

The American space agency NASA has issued a warning about a massive asteroid, 2014 TN17, which is approaching our planet. The asteroid, measuring 165 meters in width—twice the size of the Taj ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Then there were others, such as the Great Dying and the Late Devonian extinction. An asteroid's impact killed the dinosaurs and is the only mass extinction we know about that was caused by an outer ...