Aug 19
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On August 16, a car-sized asteroid came to within 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) of our planet, making it the…
May 27
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When the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit Earth, it struck at an angle that maximized its destructive…
May 21
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It’s neither an asteroid nor a comet but something in between. It’s also parked within Jupiter’s orbit, making this…
May 7
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Hayabusa2 is heading home to Earth, but scientists continue to review data collected by the spacecraft during its…
Apr 23
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Astronomers think they’ve found an entire population of asteroids originating from outside our solar system,…
Mar 23
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To prepare for OSIRIS-REx’s pending touchdown onto the surface of Bennu, NASA used the spacecraft to photograph…
Mar 19
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When a gigantic asteroid struck the Earth some 66 million years ago, it triggered an “impact winter” that…
Mar 2
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The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft set out on September 8, 2016 to study the asteroid Bennu. But last fall, one of its…
Feb 28
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Our planet recently adopted a mini-moon that’s roughly the size of a car, though astronomers aren’t sure yet if it’s…
Feb 19
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Scientists have released their initial analysis of a meteorite that fell over Europe last September. They report that…
Feb 14
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An asteroid that whizzed within 3 million miles of Earth last week turned out to be two objects in a binary system,…
Jan 21
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A 70-kilometer-wide (43-mile) impact structure in the Australian Outback has been dated to 2.2 billion years old,…
Jan 16
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Scientists have new evidence in their quest to settle the longstanding debate about whether it was a gigantic…
Jan 6
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Some astronomers believe that Jupiter, instead of protecting Earth from dangerous comets and asteroids, is actively…
Dec 13
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The OSIRIS-REx team has decided on a location to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu. It’s a 460-foot-wide crate…
Dec 5
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Images taken by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft are helping scientists to understand why small particles are…
Dec 2
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The European Space Agency has approved the budget of Hera, the European component of a mission to slam a spacecraft…
Nov 12
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The Japanese space agency has declared an end to the exploratory phase of the Hayabusa2 mission. Beginning tomorrow,…
Oct 4
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New evidence from South Africa is adding further credence to the idea that a large asteroid or comet struck Earth…
Sep 25
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NASA will begin developing a space-based telescope to track the asteroids near Earth, according to a statement by…