Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

THE popular Pink Floyd Planetarium Show is returning to Cheshire in 2025 after a sell-out run last year. Jodrell Bank Centre for Engagement has announced an exciting line-up of events for the coming ...

1 Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology, University of Buckingham, Buckingham, UK. 2 Centre for Astrobiology, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka. 3 National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy, ...

Astronomers are learning more and more about asteroids. For instance, NASA's robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft journeyed to an asteroid named Bennu and, in 2020, collected samples of rock and dust that ...

In 2016, NASA launched the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx towards the near-earth asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft managed to make contact in 2020, collecting samples which returned in 2023. Those samples ...

NASA scientists previously estimated that the odds of 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 could rise to 20 percent, but the agency never told the public. A statistical analysis ...

February 24, 2025. What started few years ago as a small project for a locally manufactured car-shaped vehicle ...

Recently, NASA spacecraft brought samples from the asteroid Bennu. The 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid is thought to have formed in the first 10 million years of the solar system’s existence.

launched the Europa Clipper mission to study Jupiter's icy ocean moon and promoted the finding of molecules containing the ingredients for life in samples from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by ...

Bennu’s potential collision with Earth is a remote but unsettling possibility, according to a new study. Bennu is about 500 metres wide—taller than the Empire State Building and as wide as ...

Earth could face catastrophic consequences if hit by an asteroid similar to Bennu, according to new computer simulations. Scientists have determined that such an impact would dramatically alter our ...