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asteroid
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NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid – photos show the last moments of the successful DART mission
Didymos (bottom right) and its smaller moonlet Dimorphos (center) were the targets of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test.…
October 19, 2022
Glass beads in lunar soil reveal ancient asteroid bombardments on the Moon and Earth
NASA / JSC Alexander Nemchin, Curtin University and Katarina Miljkovic, Curtin University In 2020, China’s Chang’e 5 mission…
October 12, 2022
Mystery crater potentially caused by relative of dinosaur-killing asteroid
Kevin Gill/Flickr, CC BY-SA Uisdean Nicholson, Heriot-Watt University; Sean Gulick, University of Texas at Austin, and Veronica Bray,…
August 31, 2022
First Quadruple Asteroid System Discovered By Thai and French Astronomers
Close to 150 years ago, astronomer Christian Peters found what was to be designated minor planet 130 Elektra,…
March 27, 2022
Earth Is Being Led By a Second Newly-Discovered Trojan Asteroid—But Only For 4,000 Years
It appears Earth may be whirring around the Solar System like a dignitary, as it is currently being…
February 27, 2022
Some of Earth’s Water May Have Come From the Sun, Scientists Find
Evoking images of the Sun shouldn’t normally make you think of water. After all, it’s a giant hot…
December 16, 2021
Astronomers Imaged 42 of Our System’s Largest Main-Belt Asteroids
Our planet’s past inhabitants were well-aware of just how dangerous space can be to any organisms here on…
November 14, 2021
Earth’s Oxygen Took a While to Settle In—And We May Have Asteroids to Blame For It
We might take the oxygen in our planet’s atmosphere for granted now, but it certainly wasn’t always there.…
November 9, 2021
NASA Set to Attempt “Asteroid Redirection” With DART
One of the constant threats to humanity’s survival is the looming presence of Solar System bodies which are…
October 25, 2021
A Bronze-Age City May Have Been Destroyed By an Exploding Asteroid
3,600 years ago, in a city sitting 11.3 km (7 mi) northeast of the Dead Sea in what…
October 5, 2021