Researchers from Imperial College London have discovered that a space-returned sample from asteroid Ryugu was rapidly colonized by terrestrial microorganisms, even under stringent contamination ...

An asteroid the size of a school bus is heading towards our planet, zipping past us twice as close as our own moon today. The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is one of the first handful of asteroids ...

In 2020, it successfully returned samples from asteroid Ryugu ... College London reveals that Earth’s microorganisms likely colonized the samples. The team observed microbial growth patterns ...

Isotopes in the fossils of tiny marine organisms that lived at the time suggest that Earth's climate did not swerve in the 150,000 years following the asteroid strikes, according to the new study.

Musk has long touted a thriving Mars settlement as his life's top ambition, saying it's necessary to make the human species interplanetary in case of an extinction event like an asteroid impact.

A sample from the asteroid Ryugu, brought back to Earth by ... Genge noted, “This demonstrates how easily terrestrial microbes can colonize extraterrestrial materials, posing a risk of ...