A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...
Cape Canaveral, Fla. — New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a ...
The asteroid Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small potential of entering the earth's atmosphere on December 22, 2032 and scientists ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last ... and South Asia.” The images in the animation were captured by an ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, on ...
South polar region of the giant asteroid Vesta. Nasa/jPL-Caltech/Getty Images Asteroid 2024 YR4 has an "interesting" orbit, Fast said. The elongated path takes the asteroid around the sun and into ...