"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...

Perry Wood Primary and Griffin Schools Trust launch a hands-on Science Symposium, 2–6 March, with experiments, stargazing, and Open ...

The team picked an extremophile from the Chilean high desert that has the ability to survive some of the most inhospitable conditions on Earth: extreme cold, dryness, and intense radiation. These are ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started releasing its first discoveries: including supernovae, variable stars and asteroids ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new Johns Hopkins University study finds. The work demonstrates that a certain ...

Microbes blasted off a planet by an asteroid strike may survive the journey to ...

Helium-3 dating reveals new plankton species emerged within thousands—and sometimes just 2,000—years after the dinosaur-killing impact, showing life recovered far faster than assumed.

A famously resilient bacterium may be tough enough to survive one of the most violent events imaginable on Mars. In ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets – including Earth – and survive, a new Johns Hopkins ...

The newly found tektites in Brazil are named "geraisites," after the east coast Brazilian state of Minas Gerais where they were found. The geraisites are between 1 gram and 86 grams in mass and have ...