New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

In vier Jahren wird der Asteroid Apophis sehr nahe an der Erde vorbeifliegen – 32.000 Kilometer von der Erde entfernt, das ist im Weltall nicht viel. Ein Forschungsteam der Uni Würzburg ...

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 ...

Asteroid YR4 was discovered on December 27, 2024, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), an early warning system developed by the University of Hawaii. At the time ...

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 ...

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation following the impact that wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs.

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 ... the director of the University of North Dakota's Observatory Department ...

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 ...