The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

When we eventually mine asteroids, humans and robots will not leave unprotected microbes on the surface. Instead, machines ...

More than 50,000 years ago, a meteor hit Earth and formed what we now call Meteor Crater in northern Arizona. But new ...

Brazilian scientists have discovered glassy fragments, known as tektites, revealing evidence of a massive extraterrestrial impact event that occurred 6.3 million years ago.

An asteroid the size of a building could collide with the Moon in 2032 and generate a flash visible from Earth.

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A fungus aboard the ISS extracted palladium from meteorite rock, hinting at future space mining powered by living microbes.

A meteorite chip sat in a small container, bathed in liquid, while the International Space Station floated overhead. Inside, ...

According to Space.com and Cornell University, NASA astronauts conducted a microbe-based meteorite mining experiment aboard the International Space Station to study mineral extraction in microgravity.

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How can microbes be used to help enhance human space exploration, specifically on the Moon and Mars? This is what a recent study published in npj Micrograv | Space ...