NASA to track temporary ‘mini moon’ asteroid with planetary radar — All you need to know
Earth acquired a temporary mini moon, 2024 PT5, detected by astronomers. NASA will monitor its path, as it orbits for nearly two months before departing in late November, with a potential return in ...
After 66 million years, scientists discover there wasn’t just one asteroid which killed the dinosaurs
A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on ...
OSIRIS-REx Returning Asteroid Bennu Samples To Earth
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
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Did two asteroids wipe out the dinosaurs? New massive crater on Atlantic seafloor suggests a deadly double impact
Scientists found a previously hidden massive asteroid crater in the Atlantic Ocean. Did two asteroids wipe out the dinosaurs?
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Astronauts could one day end up eating asteroids
Bacteria grown from carbon compounds in asteroids could be turned into a kind of nutritionally balanced milkshake ...
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was not alone
Scientists think that a second asteroid crashed into the Earth at the same time that a meteor was condemning the dinosaurs to extinction.
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Laser Message Sent 460 Million Kilometers – Further Than Mars – To NASA's Psyche
T he Psyche mission is on its way to study the metallic asteroid of the same name, and on its journey, continues to test the ...
ESA's Hera spacecraft set for asteroid 'crime scene investigation'
Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...
Earth’s 2nd ‘moon’ has arrived: What you need to know
A second moon has officially entered Earth’s orbit — sort of. Although it’s being called a “mini-moon,” the object is ...
When a massive asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, ants began farming fungi
New research shows that ants have been farming fungi for 66 million years — thanks in part to the asteroid that fueled the ...
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ESA’s ‘planetary defence mission’ has startups dreaming of asteroid mining
The Hera mission will explore an asteroid deflection test. It also gives startups a chance to refine their technologies.
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Hera mission set to revisit asteroid after NASA's redirection test
The European Space Agency is sending a probe to get a closer look at the asteroid Dimorphos, which had its orbit altered by NASA’s DART mission in 2022 ...