Tiny fragments of a 4-billion-year-old asteroid reveal its history
In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth Today
The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.
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What If the Largest Asteroid Hit Earth?
Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but ...
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'God of chaos' asteroid may be transformed by tremors and landslides during 2029 flyby of Earth, study finds
When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...
NASA Devised a Wild Plot to Capture an Asteroid and Save Humanity. It Almost Failed
The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.
Earth's powerful gravity might do a number on the asteroid Apophis
Ballouz told LiveScience the findings "introduce a novel mechanism for asteroid surface refreshing that may provide an answer ...
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Could investing in asteroid mining make you a billionaire?
Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...
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Apophis: a European space mission gets up close with an asteroid set to brush by Earth
A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...
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'Hera' mission to study NASA-deflected asteroid completes key maneuver
Hera's journey to asteroid Dimorphos. To get to asteroid Dimorphos, Hera performed its first maneuver with two bursts from ...
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If an asteroid were heading towards Earth, could you avert disaster?
Hiding somewhere in the gloom of space, there is a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with our planet. If we don’t spot it and somehow thwart its arrival, it will pierce Earth’s ...
Understanding Apophis: Key facts about the near-Earth asteroid set to fly in 2029
As scientists prepare to study this intriguing celestial body, the upcoming flybys present valuable opportunities for ...
Planetary defense mission Hera blasts off toward Mars
The European Space Agency's Hera mission is on its way toward Mars, where it will get a gravity assist before going on to its asteroid target.