Asteroid-sample return mission enables researchers to conduct largest geophysical observation campaign of its kind
The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and with ...
Saturn Trojan asteroid confirmed
A small international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has confirmed that asteroid 2019 UO14 is a Trojan asteroid of ...
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The Dinosaur Age Ended With Not One, but Two Asteroid Impacts, Scientists Say
Scientists now say that's almost precisely what happened to the dinosaurs, on a much bigger scale: the asteroid that hit ...
The Day NASA Smashed an Asteroid: What It Was Like Inside Mission Control
The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.
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Earth unlikely to be destroyed by doomsday asteroid swarms, study explains
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.
Astounding New 3D Images Reveal Ancient Asteroid Crater Hidden Beneath Atlantic Ocean
Detailed images of the 66-million-year-old Nadir Crater offer new insights into catastrophic asteroid impacts, showing ...
The Dino-Killing Asteroid May Have Actually Been a One-Two Punch
The end of non-avian dinosaur’s time on Earth is often depicted as one big, knockout blow delivered by the cataclysmic ...
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This Asteroid May Help Reveal a Fifth Fundamental Force in The Universe
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has taught us a lot about the nature of asteroids and the history of our planet, and it's not done ...
A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test
The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by ...
How the Asteroid That Killed Dinosaurs Turned Ants Into Farmers
Research highlights how the meteor impact that ended the dinosaurs helped spawn the mutualistic relationship between ants and ...
Scientists Discover a Second Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...