The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

Photo Credit: Pixabay Among these menacing asteroids are Asteroid Bennu, Asteroid 29075 (1950 DA), Asteroid 2023 TL4, Asteroid 2007 FT3 and Asteroid 1979 XB. Photo Credit: NASA The fact that humanity ...

The fear of huge asteroid impacts shares similarities with the fear of flying. Though the probability of anything happening is very small, the vivid thought of such a catastrophic event occurring ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists ... s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned samples from the asteroid to Earth in 2023. They quickly found these contained a plethora of the chemical building ...

Last year, astronomers detected the near-earth asteroid (NEA) 2024 YR4 ... the largest ever returned to Earth (in September 2023), contained organic compounds and hydrated minerals.

Anne Verbiscer, a research professor in the University of Virginia’s astronomy department, will soon be working with NASA to take a closer look at Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. Verbiscer is one of eight ...

In that 2021 study, the research team suggested that the megaripples, which have an average height of 52 feet (16 meters) and an average wavelength (from one crest of a wave to the next) of 1,970 ...

Through the International Asteroid Discovery Project (IADP), Malik identified the asteroid “2023 OG40” and will have the opportunity to name it once NASA verifies the discovery. Daksh’s ...

The dinosaurs, of course, could do nothing about the killer asteroid, other than presumably waving their tiny arms at the oncoming doom. But if they did have a space program — and yes ...

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GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide wi ...

A recent study models an alternate version of our solar system, one where an extra planet, rather than an asteroid belt, formed between Mars and Jupiter. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Could a giant planet ...