Tag: Asteroid

An illustration shows the LUCY spacecraft as it heads back to Earth for a gravity assist in late 2024 (Image ...

Who doesn’t love showing off their collection of cool rocks? NASA was last week after struggling with it for a ...

Since launching its first test mission to vaporize bits of an asteroid in space, AstroForge has struggled to keep a ...

It departed our planet just over two months ago, but NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is already 16 million miles from Earth, ...

News Science & Astronomy This illustration depicts asteroid Phaethon being heated by the Sun. The asteroid’s surface gets so hot ...

News Science & Astronomy NASA’s Lucy probe captured this image of the binary asteroid Dinkinesh during a flyby on Nov. ...

Earth The Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago filled the sky with fine silicate dust, which blocked out sunlight and ...

A handful of asteroids in our solar system are so dense that no element on Earth can explain their properties. ...

Lindy Elkins-Tanton is on a journey back in time, to unlock the secrets of the early solar system, and to ...

News Science & Astronomy A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample collector. Sample material from asteroid Bennu can ...