Bus-Size Asteroid Flew Closer Than The Moon - Watch The Orbit Animation
Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...
Skyscraper-sized asteroid and 4 others speed past Earth on the same day
Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the ...
Asteroid Ryugu: The Space Rock That Could Explain Life on Earth
New research based on samples from asteroid Ryugu reveals that phosphorus-rich compounds could explain how Earth became ...
Apophis: A new European space mission could get up close with a large asteroid that's set to brush by Earth
The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the ...
A colossal asteroid once boiled the oceans. It also did the unexpected.
D: Iron in the ocean (from the ocean circulation, from the impactor itself, and from erosion), along with nutrients (like ...
Asteroid Enters As Fireball Over California Skies Right After Its Discovery; Video Surfaces
Earlier on September 4, an asteroid just one metre wide entered the atmosphere as a brilliant fireball. Named 2024 RW1, the ...
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Saturn gets its 1st confirmed Trojan asteroid — but it might be stolen
Saturn seems to have snatched its first known Trojan asteroid, designated 2019 UO14, a few thousand years ago as the space ...
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How a Space Rock 4 Times the Size of Everest Actually Helped Early Life on Earth
Sometimes, getting hit by a space rock is a good thing. The asteroid which struck Earth 66 million years ago wiped the ...
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Saturn finally has its first Trojan asteroid
Gaseous giant Saturn seems to have snatched its first known Trojan asteroid “2019 UO14” when the space rock was “bouncing” ...