It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes observatory captured imagery of the impact from the French island of La ...
The material withstands 58 percent more stress than diamonds, and could have "remarkable mechanical properties".
An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
Where things stand: The chances of the asteroid hitting Earth currently stand at 2.1%, or about 1 in 47, and could fall to ...
Prepare to get schooled If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about ...
Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...
The far side of the Moon has its own versions of the Grand Canyon—two of them, in fact! A new study explains how these deep ...
The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size could do.