Modeling of the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago shows it created a world largely unsuitable for dinosaurs to live in. The asteroid, which…
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Illustration of NASA’s DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben…
The use of a tether assisted system could prevent an asteroid impacting Earth without the risk of fragmentation. Our planet exists within the vicinity of…
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona This view of sample site Nightingale on asteroid Bennu is a mosaic of images collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on March…
(Click the image for full view.) The meteorite is a piece of the surface of asteroid Vesta. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis recently…
Examples of disaggregation (top) and linear fractures (bottom) in boulders on asteroid Bennu from images taken by NASA’s OSIRIS-REX spacecraft. In the bottom row, fracture…
A new study reveals that asteroid impact sites in the ocean may possess a crucial link in explaining the formation of the essential molecules for…
Sample site Osprey on asteroid Bennu. Credits: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona This view of sample site Osprey on asteroid Bennu is a mosaic of images collected…
Brian May, Astrophysicist and Rockstar. Credit: ESA – Science Office Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May has teamed up with asteroid researchers to investigate striking…
The planetary system around star HR8799 is remarkably similar to our Solar System. A research team led by astronomers from the University of Groningen and…
This illustration shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the asteroid’s surface. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona NASA’s first asteroid…
False color map of the surface of Ryugu with craters marked by circles. Credit: © 2020 Morota et al. Ryugu’s interaction with the sun changes…
Exposure animation for asteroid 2020 HS7 as observed by the Tautenburg Observatory on April 28, 2020, a few hours after the Pan-STARRS project reported the…
Large “Potentially Hazardous” Asteroid NASA Has Been Tracking for 22 Years Will Fly Past Earth Today
Large “Potentially Hazardous” Asteroid NASA Has Been Tracking for 22 Years Will Fly Past Earth Today
Artist’s concept of a near-Earth object. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The large near-Earth object is well known to astronomers and will get no closer than 3.9 million…
This artist’s concept shows the trajectory and configuration of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during Checkpoint rehearsal, which is the first time the mission will practice the…
This artist’s concept shows the trajectory and configuration of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during Checkpoint rehearsal, which is the first time the mission will practice the…
Lawrence Livermore researchers compared results of asteroid deflection simulations to experimental data and found that the strength model has a substantial effect on momentum transferred.…
The NEXT-C flight thruster is mounted within a thermal shroud in one of NASA Glenn’s vacuum chambers. The thermal shroud subjects the thruster to the…
This flat projection mosaic of asteroid Bennu shows the locations of the first 12 surface features to receive official names from the International Astronomical Union.…
As the Solar System was forming, rock and dust coalesced to form primordial bodies around the Sun. Remnants of the earliest rocky bodies could be…