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Pieces of distant asteroid show ‘bombardment’ that happens to objects in space
The Independent via Yahoo News· 4 days agoPieces of a distant asteroid show the “bombardment” that objects in space undergo, according to the...
Probing the effects of interplanetary space on asteroid Ryugu
Phys.org· 5 days agoAnalyzing samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu by the Japanese Space Agency's Hayabusa2...
This spacecraft is headed to NASA's asteroid-crash aftermath — but first, it'll stop by Mars
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoScheduled to launch in October, Hera's main mission is to fly to the binary asteroid system called...
'Baby asteroid' just a toddler in space years
Science Daily· 2 days agoThe team derived the age of Selam, a "moonlet" circling the small asteroid Dinkinesh in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, based only on dynamics ...
Scientists say they’ve traced the origins of a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid to the far...
AccuWeather· 2 days agoThe Giordano Bruno crater matched all of the criteria determined by impact simulations in the study. (CNN) — An unusual asteroid traveling near Earth is thought to be a chunk ...
Asteroid hunters spot 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids — more than were discovered by all of...
New York Post· 3 days agoWe may no longer have to fear unseen Empire State Building-sized space rocks passing within our...
Team cracks mystery of asteroid's origin
Futurity· 4 days agoFor the first time, scientists have traced an asteroid to its exact place of origin—a particular crater on the moon. Unlike most near-Earth asteroids,...
Major meteor shower to peak in California sky. Here’s when — and how to catch a glimpse
Sacramento Bee via AOL· 9 hours agoAs they shoot across the sky, they will travel at around 44 miles per second. About 60 meteors pass...
Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge
AOL· 6 days agoA spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world ...
Earth's near miss with an asteroid that left 14-mile wide crater on Moon
Daily Express· 5 days agoThe Earth had a near miss with an asteroid that left a 14-mile wide crater on the Moon - with the...