Tag: Asteroid

(Image credit: Jackson Ryan) I'm standing so close to JAXA's Hayabusa2 asteroid lander that I could reach out and touch ...

Asteroid 2024 MK brushed past Earth on Saturday at 9:45 am ET (13:45 UTC). Although it posed no threat to ...

In this artistic rendering, two asteroids fly past Earth. An asteroid will whiz harmlessly past Earth Saturday June 29, 2024. ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. On a fall evening in 2022, scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied ...

Astronomers have been surveying the sky for years to catalog and track so-called Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), asteroids and comets that ...

A small asteroid flew very close to Earth Tuesday morning (May 14), just two days after it was discovered by ...

(Image credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL) When NASA's Lucy mission passed by the near-Earth asteroid Dinkinesh last November, it discovered that ...

An image of the craters created by the Corinto impact 2.3 million years ago. (Image credit: JPL-Caltech, NASA, Universidad de ...

A planetary scientist recounts an audacious mission to retrieve mineral samples from space...>>> Read full article>>> Copyright for syndicated content ...

It is not uncommon for asteroids to hit Earth. In 2013, the Chelyabinsk meteor exploded over Russia, injuring hundreds. Credit: ...