Asteroid sample return mission allows researchers to conduct largest geophysical observation campaign of its kind
An animated OSIRIS-REx leaves the asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. ...
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New study eases concerns about possible ‘apocalyptic’ asteroid swarm
This image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows Comet Encke riding its trail of pebbly debris. Every October, Earth ...
Weather could delay launch of mission to study deviated asteroid
The asteroid Dimorphos has been successfully deflected in humanity's first test of Earth's planetary defenses. Stormy weather conditions threaten to ...
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have led to the invention of ‘ant agriculture’
An anthill found on a farm in Botucatu (São Paulo State, Brazil) houses a mushroom garden that includes grass leaves ...
ESA’s Hera spacecraft set to conduct asteroid ‘crime scene investigation’
The asteroid Dimorphos has been successfully deflected in humanity's first test of Earth's planetary defenses. Europe's Hera probe is tentatively ...
Studying the possibility of using asteroid material to produce edible biomass for astronauts
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain A team of engineers and planetary scientists from the Institute for Earth and Space Exploration at ...
Five-mile asteroid impact crater under Atlantic captured in ‘exquisite’ detail by seismic data
Map showing the location of Nadir Crater and the seismic and well data set. Credit: Earth and Environment Communications (2024). ...
The asteroid Ceres is an ancient ocean world that slowly formed into a giant, murky icy orb.
Credit: Purdue University Since Giuseppe Piazzi first observed the first and largest asteroid discovered in our solar system in 1801, ...
Lab experiment suggests destroying massive asteroid could save Earth
A large asteroid could threaten life on Earth – but nuclear bombs could come to the rescue, a new lab ...
Probability of asteroid 99942 Apophis impacting Earth slightly higher than expected
The solar elongation of Apophis as seen from Earth from 2021 to 2029. The start of each year is indicated ...
