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 ...
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Bennu asteroid samples get close-up look at Brown for clues into life’s origin
Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to ...
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A meteorite 200 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing asteroid helped life on Earth flourish
The destructive power of asteroids is undeniable — just ask the dinosaurs. New research suggests a huge space rock that ...
A colossal asteroid once boiled the oceans. It also did the unexpected.
Over 3 billion years ago the S2 impact event occurred on Earth, boiling the oceans. But in new research, scientists found it ...
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
"The Trojan asteroid was in the process of gravitationally 'bouncing' between the giant planets when it got snagged by Saturn." ...
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What Happened At Chicxulub? The Asteroid Impact That Killed The Dinosaurs
Further study, together with the magnetic and gravity data, confirmed the site as an impact event, named for the nearby ...
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Asteroid Strikes Near California Moments After Discovery
After briefly monitoring the object, the ATLAS survey confirmed that the asteroid entered the atmosphere safely, causing no damage. It created a bright fireball about 1,000 kilometers off the ...