In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

Baker’s yeast isn’t just useful in the kitchen — it may also be built for space. Researchers found that yeast cells can ...

At the University of Sydney, a Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny slice of outer space and used it to make cosmic dust from ...

Linda Losurdo, a doctoral student at the University of Sydney, successfully simulated star-like conditions to produce cosmic ...

Planetary defence research often sits between modelling and imagination, with few chances to test real materials under realistic conditions. A new stu.

A doctoral student recreated a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

The Curiosity rover is travelling along the lower slopes of Mount Sharp (Mars), a large mountain in the center of Gale Crater ...

A colour-changing lake born from a meteor impact keeps baffling scientists, blending space science, ancient myths, and rare ...

A lake born from the sky. That’s how Lonar Crater Lake is often described, and once you see it, the phrase makes sense.

Nine-year-old Ariana Church discovered a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite older than Earth itself - while exploring a beach in ...