Interplanetary contamination risks from space missions and strategies to mitigate them, including the importance of ...
The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...
The asteroid, discovered in December 2024, is believed to measure between 40 metres and 90 metres. It was first given a ...
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YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance ...
Scientists have discovered traces of organic compounds in asteroid samples brought back by NASA, a finding that could suggest ...
Dust and other debris would rise into the atmosphere on Bennu striking Earth, blocking out the Sun and cooling the planet to ...
The "parade of planets" in the evening sky continues. Starting the evening of Feb. 22, Mercury will join the lineup but it ...
It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have ...
Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...
Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...
On Oct. 20, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On Sept. 4, 2023, as it passed by the earth en route to asteroid Apophis, it dropped off a capsule carrying that ...