Asteroids are no longer just celestial curiosities on a telescope chart; they are emerging as test beds for a new resource economy that could reshape how humanity powers industry, builds ...

Water discoveries in space happen all the time. But this one’s actually a big deal, and not just because some scientists got excited (though they absolutely did). NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory ...

Scientists are calling the Virgin Galactic mission that carried the bones of Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi to the edge of space a major ethical breach. When you purchase through links on our ...

This week is the perfect time to watch the debris from an ancient space catastrophe rain down on Earth’s atmosphere. Two meteor showers, both streams of debris from the same massive object that broke ...

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Timothy Nash, one of the passengers on the flight, had partnered with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa to bring a fossilized Australopithecus sediba clavicle (estimated to be up to ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space exploration—or even be mined for valuable resources. By analyzing rare meteorites ...

Researchers using the Gaia space telescope studied some ancient stars near the sun, revealing that our corner of the Milky Way may be billions of years older than once thought. When you purchase ...

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has massive implications for the geological history of the region and some of the ...

Virgin Galactic has sparked controversy after transporting the fossils of two ancient humans into space. The fossils of the two extinct hominin species were under the custodianship of the University ...