This is an artists illustration of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft firing thrusters near the surface of the asteroid Apophis. Credit: Heather Roper The extended mission, dubbed…
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Animation of an asteroid rotating in space. Asteroids are rocky celestial bodies that orbit the Sun, but do not meet the requirements to be classified…
Klet Observatory sees asteroid 2022 EB5, 13 minutes before impact. Credit: ESA Most asteroids that have impacted Earth were discovered many years, often many millions…
Illustration of an asteroid striking the Earth’s atmosphere. Asteroid 2022 EB5 was too small to pose a hazard to Earth, but its discovery marks the…
Photo from fieldwork at the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet in 2019. Credit: Pierre Beck Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha…
Illustration of the New Horizons space probe in the Kuiper Belt. These icy bodies are the leftovers from planet formation. In the distant reaches of…
Earlier this year, the discovery of a potentially hazardous asteroid took astronomers on a roller coaster ride. On January 6, 2022, astronomers at the Mount…
A giant asteroid struck Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. A space security expert explains NASA’s plans to prevent a potential…
For a few tense days this January, a roughly 70-meter asteroid became the riskiest observed in over a decade. Despite the Moon’s attempt to scupper…
False-color image of impact recrystallized phosphate mineral in Chelyabinsk meteorite. Credit: Craig Walton A new way of dating collisions between asteroids and planetary bodies throughout…
It’s a funny thing about homing in on an asteroid and calculating its path, future position, and probability of impacting Earth – it will often…
Artistic reconstruction of the Seiche wave surging into the Tanis river, bringing in fishes and everything in its path (dinosaurs, trees) while impact spherules rain…
Several dozen small impact craters, 10–70-m in size, have been discovered in southeastern Wyoming. A team of U.S. and German geoscientists found these ancient craters…
The asteroid that killed nearly all dinosaurs struck Earth during springtime. An international team of scientists from the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Uppsala…
Planets aren’t the only celestial objects with moons – asteroids can have them too. They are usually other, smaller asteroids in orbit around a larger…
Unprecedented Opportunity To Investigate the Next Interstellar Visitor With the Webb Space Telescope
Unprecedented Opportunity To Investigate the Next Interstellar Visitor With the Webb Space Telescope
This artist’s impression shows the first interstellar object discovered in the Solar System, `Oumuamua. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser Scientists will learn about objects…
An artist’s rendering of Psyche, the largest of the metal-rich asteroids in the solar system. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Scientists have thought that the asteroid Psyche could…
Using the 4.1-meter SOAR (Southern Astrophysical Research) Telescope on Cerro Pachón in Chile, astronomers have confirmed that an asteroid discovered in 2020 by the Pan-STARRS1…
The NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National…
Designated Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, and nicknamed “Black Beauty,” the Martian meteorite weighs approximately 11 ounces (320 grams). Credit: NASA Curtin University researchers studying a…