Finnish team of researchers found out the composition of asteroid Phaethon
The asteroid that causes the Geminid shooting star swarm has also puzzled researchers with its comet-like tail. The infrared spectrum ...
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SwRI-led Lucy observes first-ever contact binary orbiting an asteroid
After the Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy mission flew past the asteroid Dinkinesh, the team discovered that it is even more ...
SwRI-led Lucy mission shows Dinkinesh asteroid is actually a binary
SAN ANTONIO — November 3, 2023 —New images captured by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft confirmed that the small main belt asteroid ...
UArizona researchers probe how a piece of the moon became a near-Earth asteroid
In 2021, a team of University of Arizona astronomers suggested that a recently discovered near-Earth asteroid, Kamooalewa, could be a chunk ...
You’re reading this because an asteroid killed the dinosaurs, allowing mammals to dominate the Earth. But why?
Almost 66 million years ago, an asteroid struck the Earth, killing all non-avian dinosaurs and allowing mammals to dominate. But ...
New algorithm ensnares its first ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid
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Hubble sees boulders escaping from asteroid dimorphos
The popular 1954 rock song "Shake, Rattle and Roll," could be the theme music for the Hubble Space Telescope's latest ...
Humans’ ancestors survived the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs
A Cretaceous origin for placental mammals, the group that includes humans, dogs and bats, has been revealed by in-depth analysis ...
The University of Lausanne and the Natural History Museum of Geneva receive samples of the famous asteroid Ryugu for their scientific research
Ryugu is a witness of the time when the solar system and the planets were formed. • The samples, taken ...
Webb looks for Fomalhaut’s asteroid belt and finds much more
Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order ...
How were amino acids, one of the key building blocks of life, formed before the origin of life on Earth? Tiny particles from the near Earth asteroid Ryugu can help answer this profound question
Our solar system formed from a molecular cloud, which was composed of gas and dust that was emitted into the ...
DART successfully deflected the orbit of an asteroid, but by how much?
Using data from NASA’s successful double asteroid redirection test in September 2022, a team of scientists including Siegfried Eggl, an aerospace ...
Hubble captures movie of DART asteroid impact debris
Like a sports photographer at an auto-racing event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a series of photos of asteroid Dimorphos ...
New NASA DART data prove viability of asteroid deflection as planetary defense strategy
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was Earth’s first attempt at launching a spacecraft to intentionally collide with and deflect ...
New insights from an ancient asteroid
In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft retrieved samples from asteroid Ryugu and successfully returned them to Earth. Researchers at Tohoku ...
Asteroid impact in slow motion
Asteroid impacts are catastrophic events that create huge craters and sometimes melt parts of Earth's bedrock.“ Nevertheless, craters are often ...
SwRI-led Lucy team announces new asteroid target
SAN ANTONIO — Jan. 25, 2023 — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will add another asteroid encounter to its 4-billion-mile journey. On ...
Asteroid findings from specks of space dust could save the planet
Curtin University-led research into the durability and age of an ancient asteroid made of rocky rubble and dust, revealed significant ...
NASA and HAARP conclude asteroid experiment
A powerful transmitter in remote Alaska sent long wavelength radio signals into space Tuesday with the purpose of bouncing them ...
Largest potentially hazardous asteroid detected in eight years
Twilight observations with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program ...