The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...
A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The NEO Surveyor, set to launch in 2027, is the first spacecraft ...
An ancient asteroid slammed into Australia 600 million years ago, leaving a long, shallow crater. Shatter cones and rock deformations reveal the force of the impact, but its full consequences remain ...
“We are eagerly awaiting the flyby because Donaldjohanson seems very different from Bennu and Ryugu,” Marchi said. “But we might find surprising connections.” The asteroid is named after ...
Representative image created using AI. A massive space rock, Asteroid 2014 TN17, is hurtling toward Earth at a speed of 77,282 km/h. Measuring about 540 feet (165 metres) in diameter – nearly twice ...
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 ...
Bennu and 1950 DA are two asteroids that are often believed to hit Earth within the next hundred years. Let’s see: Asteroid 1950 DA was discovered in 1950. It has a size of 0.68 miles (1.1 ...
The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...
Most recently, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) obtained samples from asteroid 101955 Bennu. In addition to confirming ...