The 2013 Chelyabinsk meteorite caused a series of shock waves that damaged 7,200 buildings, broke windows, and injured 1,500 people. Its characteristics may help to…
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Twilight observations with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile have enabled astronomers to spot three…
NASA’s Psyche mission will explore a unique metallic asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid, likely made largely of nickel-iron metal mixed…
The new research indicates that the impactor would have to be about 20 to 25 kilometers (12.4 to 15.5 miles) in size and move at…
New evidence suggests that the Chicxulub asteroid impact triggered an earthquake so monstrous that it shook the planet for weeks to months after the collision.…
Maximum tsunami wave amplitude following the asteroid impact 66 million years ago. Credit: From Range et al. in AGU Advances, 2022 Sixty-six million years ago…
Astronomers using the SOAR telescope in Chile captured the vast plume of dust and debris blasted from the surface of the asteroid Dimorphos by NASA’s…
These images, Hubble on left and Webb on the right, show observations of the Didymos-Dimorphos system several hours after NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)…
Lunar craters. Credit & Copyright: Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau Lunar glass shows Moon asteroid impacts mirrored on Earth Scientists have found asteroid impacts on the Moon…
Image captured by the Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube a few minutes after the intentional collision of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission with its…
NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with the smaller body of the Didymos binary asteroid system on September 26, 2022. This artist’s animation illustrates the impact. ESA’s…
The final images leading up to the DART spacecraft’s intentional collision with asteroid Dimorphos. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and…
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will impact its target asteroid Dimorphos on September 26 at 7:14 p.m. EDT (4:14 p.m. PDT). Credit: NASA Today,…
DART Animation. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal…
This illustration depicts NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Trying…
NASA’s DART spacecraft is due to collide with the smaller body of the Didymos binary asteroid system in September 2022. Credit: ESA–ScienceOffice.org NASAEstablished in 1958,…
DART Animation. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL DART Team Confirms Orbit of Targeted Asteroid Using some of the world’s most powerful telescopes, the DART investigation team…
Discovery of a large impact crater beneath the North Atlantic Ocean reveals that more than one asteroid could have spelled doom for the dinosaurs. A…
Lucy will explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids – thought to be “fossils of planet formation.” Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Even before its launch…
Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Ryugu. Credit: JAXA Asteroids from the outer Solar System may have brought the building blocks of life to Earth. New…