Tag: Asteroid

(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: ...

On September 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission successfully impacted Dimorphos, the natural satellite of the binary ...

In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a tiny asteroid to nudge it off its orbital course. The mission ...

View of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head with lid removed, unveiling the bulk of asteroid Bennu sample inside. (Image credit: ...

ByRobin George AndrewsPublished February 9, 2024If you travelled back in time many millions of years, Earth would resemble the planet ...

Aubrite meteorite from asteroid 2024 BX1, photographed at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin by Laura Kranich, a Freie Universität MSc ...

The first fragment of 2024 BX1 recovered by the Natural History Museum/DLR/Freie Universtaet Berlin team. Right in the image is ...