The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos on Oct. 7, meant to follow up on NASA's ...
A bus-sized asteroid is set to pass Earth on 19 October. Named 2024 TY21, the asteroid is around 40 feet wide. It will pass at a safe distance of 840,000 miles. NASA assures that there is no threat to ...
The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid. But on the way there, the probe looked back home, ...
The meteor’s impact triggered a cascade of effects. It kicked up so much dust that the sky darkened. As the sun dimmed, ...
An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...
Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...
The Ramses mission would rendezvous with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its 2029 close approach to Earth.
A large asteroid, roughly the size of a stadium, is set to pass Earth on . Named 2024 RV50, this asteroid measures about 710 ...
ESA's Hera spacecraft captured farewell views of Earth and the moon as it sails away into space to investigate the asteroid ...
Ice on ancient asteroids like Ryugu may have been crucial in kickstarting life on Earth. Researchers from Imperial and ...
2 new papers trace the origin of most meteorites to just a handful of asteroid breakup events – and possibly even individual ...
Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today ...