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A new study published in Science finds that Earth’s water may have come from materials that were present in the inner solar system at the…
Artist’s concept of Lucy spacecraft at Trojan asteroid. Credit: NASA NASA’s first mission to explore the Trojan asteroids is one step closer to launch. The…
This illustration shows asteroid 2020 QG’s trajectory bending during its close approach to Earth. The asteroid is the closest known nonimpacting asteroid ever detected. Credit:…
This artist’s concept shows the trajectory and configuration of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during Matchpoint rehearsal, which is the final time the mission will practice the…
Credit: Tsunehiko Kato, 4D2U Project, NAOJ Researchers from Kobe University and the National Institute of Technology, Oshima College have conducted a detailed reanalysis of image…
An asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system. (Artist’s illustration.) Credit: Murayama/Osaka University A research team led by Osaka University investigated the formation ages of 59…
A study conducted by scientists at São Paulo State University’s Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences (IGCE-UNESP) in Rio Claro, Brazil, has identified 19 asteroids…
Asteroid 65803 Didymos is a binary near-Earth asteroid; the primary body has a diameter of around 780 m and a rotation period of 2.26 hours,…
This artist’s concept, updated as of June 2020, depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU The mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid is pivoting from planning…
Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, in the process revealing the composition, formation and evolution…
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…
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…