The asteroid Ryugu is an echo from the deep, distant past. Two tiny grains of the rock, delivered to Earth in 2020 by the famous Hayabusa2 mission, contain minerals older than any found on our planet.

A paper published in Nature last week showed decades of satellite imagery tracking phenology, or the seasonal cycle of Earth’s ecosystems. It showed ”‘hotspots’ of seasonal asynchrony around the world ...

In 2010, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Hayabusa probe became the first spacecraft to ...

Launched in 2020, initiative seeks to build vast 'digital bank of life' to protect biodiversity amid accelerating species ...