Dinosaur-killing asteroid was likely a giant mudball, study says
A study reveals the chemical makeup of the Chicxulub asteroid that collided with Earth and resulted in the extinction of ...
This Is the Last Image Taken by NASA’s Historic Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft
This final image captured by NASA’s NEOWISE shows part of the Fornax constellation. NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC/UCLA After over 10 ...
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Images from NASA's DART spacecraft reveal insights into near-Earth asteroid
The photos and data were collected from a spacecraft that crashed into Dimorphos on Sept. 26, 2022, as part of NASA's inaugural Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART. At just 530 feet in ...
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Asteroid That Ended the Dinosaurs Came From Beyond Jupiter, Study Finds
Metal isotopes delivered to Earth by the asteroid reveal it's consistent with space rocks formed in the outer solar system ...
Asteroids safely fly by Earth all the time. Here’s why scientists are watching Apophis.
A menacing asteroid named Apophis is projected to have a close encounter with Earth in 2029, but scientists have long ruled ...
Scientists think they know the origin of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs
German scientists found evidence that the space rock came from the outer limits of our solar system, well beyond Jupiter, ...
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NASA’s DART Mission Snapped Pictures Until It Crashed Into An Asteroid. Here’s What Those Images Reveal
They succeeded. A spacecraft slammed into the tiny moon of an asteroid, all while its onboard camera and an Italian robotic onlooker called LICIACube snapped photos. The footage is a treasure trove.
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Asteroid Mining Startup AstroForge Raises $40 Million
Asteroid mining startup AstroForge has raised a $40 million Series A funding round. The company said the capital will help pay for the development and launch of a spacecraft to land on an asteroid ...
A big asteroid is coming close to Earth. Be excited, not afraid.
This is the first time an asteroid of its size is coming close enough that people in parts of Western Europe and Africa will ...
Scientists pinpoint dino-killing asteroid's origin: past Jupiter
An intense debate surrounding the cosmic rock that killed the dinosaurs has stirred scientists for decades, but a new study ...
NASA's Asteroid-Hunting Telescope Shut Down, To Burn Up Soon In Atmosphere
NASA's asteroid hunting-telescope NEOWISE has officially shut down. Short for Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey ...
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Dinosaur-killing asteroid was likely a giant mudball, study says
Sixty-six million years ago, the story of life on Earth took a dramatic turn when an asteroid collided with what’s now the Yucatán Peninsula in Chicxulub, Mexico. The aftereffects of the ...