A massive asteroid, roughly the size of a stadium pitch, will pass by Earth on October 17.
A massive asteroid, roughly the size of a stadium pitch, will pass by Earth on October 17. Named 2024 RV50, the asteroid is ...
The Dino-Killing Asteroid: A Possible One-Two Punch
Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.
Asteroid-sample return mission enables researchers to conduct largest geophysical observation campaign of its kind
The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and with ...
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Hera mission headed to asteroid as part of planetary defense test to launch Monday
(This story has been updated to reflect the latest information from the FAA.) In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally ...
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Earth unlikely to be destroyed by doomsday asteroid swarms, study explains
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.
A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test
A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed ...
The Day NASA Smashed an Asteroid: What It Was Like Inside Mission Control
The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.
The Dino-Killing Asteroid May Have Actually Been a One-Two Punch
The end of non-avian dinosaur’s time on Earth is often depicted as one big, knockout blow delivered by the cataclysmic ...
Asteroid mining: A potential trillion-dollar industry
Earth's newest celestial neighbor has finally arrived. Astronomers using a powerful telescope in Sutherland, South Africa, ...
How the Asteroid That Killed Dinosaurs Turned Ants Into Farmers
Research highlights how the meteor impact that ended the dinosaurs helped spawn the mutualistic relationship between ants and ...