Groundbreaking Findings: New Analysis Unveils True Nature of Ancient Asteroid
Direct samples from near-Earth asteroid Ryugu provide scientists a glimpse into the raw materials of solid matter in the outer regions of the early Solar…
Direct samples from near-Earth asteroid Ryugu provide scientists a glimpse into the raw materials of solid matter in the outer regions of the early Solar…
NASA officials have confirmed NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope (NEO Surveyor) – the next flight mission out of the agency’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office…
University of Rochester scientists show how asteroids could be future viable space habitats using physics and engineering principles. During this past year, Jeff Bezos launched…
Although it has been nearly two years since Japanese mission Hayabusa2 returned to Earth, samples from asteroid Ryugu are still revealing valuable information about the…
Mars Megatsunami May Have Been Caused by Chicxulub-Like Asteroid Impact A Martian megatsunami may have been caused by an asteroid collision similar to the Chicxulub…
Its characteristics may help to explain certain discrepancies in the classification of near-Earth asteroids. When the Chelyabinsk fireball exploded over the Russian sky in 2013,…
Twilight observations spot three large near-Earth objects lurking in the inner Solar System. Astronomers have spotted three near-Earth asteroids (NEA) hiding in the glare of…
The mission team continues to complete testing of the spacecraft’s flight software in preparation for the 2023 launch date. On Friday, October 29, NASA announced…
Unexpected Aftermath of First-of-Its-Kind Test Intrigues Astronomers NASA carried out the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a first-of-its-kind experiment, on September 26, 2022. The pioneering…
NASA’s first asteroid sample return spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, fired its thrusters for 30 seconds on September 21 and nudged its trajectory toward Earth. The resulting course…
Researchers at the University of Rochester have created a more accurate simulation of the impact that created the Vredefort crater two billion years ago. An…
NASA’s Dart Impact Successfully Altered the Orbit of Asteroid Dimorphos Analysis of data obtained by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team over the…
A 6-mile (10-kilometer) asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, triggering the extinction of the dinosaurs. According to new evidence, the Chicxulub impact also triggered…
Sixty-six million years ago a miles-wide asteroid struck Earth, wiping out nearly all the dinosaurs and around three-quarters of the planet’s plant and animal species….
SOAR Telescope Catches Dimorphos’s Expanding Comet-like Tail After DART Impact The SOAR Telescope in Chile imaged the more than 10,000 kilometers long trail of debris…
On Monday, September 26, 2022, at 7:14 p.m. EDT (23:14 UTC), NASA’s DART spacecraft successfully smashed into asteroid Dimorphos, the 160-meter (525-foot) moonlet orbiting around…
First Time Webb and Hubble Make Simultaneous Observations of the Same Target Two of NASA’s great observatories had a front-row seat to a groundbreaking NASA…
Lunar glass shows Moon asteroid impacts mirrored on Earth Scientists have found asteroid impacts on the Moon millions of years ago coincided precisely with some…