After 66 million years, scientists discover there wasn’t just one asteroid which killed the dinosaurs
After 66 million years, scientists discover there wasn’t just one asteroid which killed the dinosaurs - Evidence of a second ...
Does Earth have a second moon? Here’s what one famous scientist says
One prominent voice challenging reports on Earth's "second moon" or "mini-moon" is the host of the recent iteration of ...
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Asteroids Named for Four Religious Sisters Who Mapped Half a Million Stars
In June and September of this year, scientists announced their decision to name four asteroids after the four Catholic ...
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DART's Asteroid Impact Produced Debris Cloud - Watch Its Evolution Over 1 Month
The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
How to defend Earth from asteroids to be explored by new space craft
The European Space Agency is preparing to launch its first planetary defense mission:: File:: 'Hera' will assess a small moon ...
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 ...