Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.
The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...
The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...
Close to the moon's ... giant planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - that is thought to have happened at the time.
Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...
Small amounts of Bennu's precious black grains — leftovers ... rocks and dirt from the potentially waterlogged dwarf planet ...
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.
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The elongated path takes the asteroid around the sun and into Earth's vicinity before it ventures far out between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter ... distance away. The moon itself is fewer ...
Nasa/jPL-Caltech/Getty Images Asteroid 2024 YR4 has an "interesting" orbit, Fast said. The elongated path takes the asteroid around the sun and into Earth's vicinity before it ventures far out between ...