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When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first ...
Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.
NASA has confirmed that Apophis, the asteroid the OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft has now been sent to explore, will fly past Earth ...
A real asteroid of this size, should it ever hit the planet, could wipe out an entire city. "This is a threat that could happen, ...
The Golden State ranks No. 1 in the U.S. for asteroid visibility, thanks to its high number of observatories and dark sky ...
Oregon is well-known as a destination for stargazers. The state has an array of designated Dark Sky places, where amateur ...
A potentially hazardous asteroid roughly the size of an aircraft carrier is due to pass within 2.8 million miles (3.5 million km) of Earth on June 5 and you can watch it happen live online.
World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...
It is not a real asteroid. This is not a real event. Day three -- It's heading to Denver. We need to stop it. The date is December 30, 2021.
The fictional asteroid was carefully constructed by Paul Chodas, a real scientist at NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies, who has been designing asteroid scenarios since the 1990s.
Aug. 27 -- Astronomers at Chile's European Southern Observatory have used the world's first virtual telescope to find the largest asteroid in our solar system. The newly discovered asteroid, known ...
This asteroid has less than a one-in-three-million chance of hitting Earth in 2056. Yet, it tops the risk list. This should give you some idea how seriously to take any tabloid headline about ...