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US space agency and scientists say sample taken from Bennu contains abundant water and carbon, as well as iron minerals.

Mysterious radio signals debunked as alien contact, attributed to starquakes on neutron stars.

Ruth Park’s novel The Harp in the South (1948) is a classic of Australian fiction. Just as television viewers in recent decades would recognise “Ramsay Street” as the fictional centre of Australia’s longest-running television soap opera Neighbours, earlier generations of readers would have recognised with affection “Twelve-and-a-half Plymouth Street”: the…

The space agency has showed off some of the material collected from a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid for the first time.

The public got its first look at samples NASA took from asteroid Bennu.

Dark, dusty sample is the biggest ever taken from an asteroid and could reveal where life came from

The afterglow of a massive collision between two giant planets may have been detected for the first time. The wreckage of the collision could eventually cool and form an entirely new planet. If the observation is confirmed, it provides an amazing opportunity to watch the birth of a new world…

Climate scientists have detected a striking jump in global temperatures during 2023. September was 1.75°C above Earth’s pre-industrial average temperature and a whole half-degree celsius warmer than the previous hottest September.

Collision of two ice giant planets produced hot, spinning object potentially hundreds of times the size of Earth

Five SRM Univ.-AP professors featured in Stanford's 'World's Top 2% Scientists' list for 2023. Congrats to Karthik Rajendran (energy, biotechnology), Rangabhashiyam Selvasembian (earth, environmental sciences), Randhir Kumar, Kshira Sagar Sahoo & Divya Chaturvedi (ICT) for their research achievements. Last year, Univ. faculty also made the list.

When you hear the word comet, you might imagine a bright streak moving across the sky. You may have a family member who saw a comet before you were born, or you may have seen one yourself when comet Nishimura passed by Earth in September 2023. But what are these…