Some small asteroids can explode suddenly
Some asteroids are more dangerous than others, according to a report published in Natural astronomy By an international team of ...
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Researchers trace 70% of meteorites to 3 families of asteroids
An international team led by three researchers from the CNRS, the European Southern Observatory (ESO, Europe) and Charles University (Czech ...
Analyzes of Ryugu samples show asteroids may have delivered compounds needed for the start of life on Earth
An international team of researchers from a wide variety of backgrounds has found evidence that asteroids provide the compounds needed ...
Data on near-Earth asteroids helps probe a possible fifth force in the universe
In 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In addition ...
Ryugu samples challenge previous ideas about the formation of carbon-rich asteroids
Asteroid Ryugu may not have traveled as far from its place of origin to its near-Earth orbit as previously thought. ...
NASA’s DART probe impact permanently altered the shape and orbit of the asteroid’s moon, new study finds
According to a new study, when NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon called Dimorphos ...
King Kong, vampires, asteroids: trendy AI misinformation popular on TikTok
TikTok is on everyone's lips in the US Congress because of its supposed links to the Chinese state, but in ...
Scientists identify water molecules on asteroids for the first time
Using data from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a joint project of NASA and the German Space Agency ...
Model suggests some near-Earth asteroids are being torn apart by its gravity
Two astronomers, one from the Asteroid Engineering Laboratory at Luleå University of Technology, Finland, and the other from the Southwest ...
Analysis reveals that organic compounds found in asteroids likely formed in colder regions of space.
Analysis of organic compounds – called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) – extracted from the asteroid Ryugu and the Murchison meteorite ...
