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Don’t look up: several asteroids are heading towards Earth – here’s how we deal with threats in real life
Could it happen? Triff/Shutterstock Monica Grady, The Open University Don’t look now – but we are currently experiencing…
The Very Best of Veritasium In Modern Sciences
Intrepid science enthusiasts from all around the world likely scour YouTube for quick and accessible science content that’s…
Astronomers have detected another ‘planet killer’ asteroid. Could we miss one coming our way?
Artist’s impression of the asteroid discovered toward the Sun. DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine Steven Tingay, Curtin University If you…
A pristine chunk of space rock found within hours of hitting Earth can tell us about the birth of the Solar System
Sarah McMullan / UKFN / Global Fireball Observatory Eleanor K. Sansom, Curtin University At about 10 o’clock on…
NASA successfully shifted an asteroid’s orbit – DART spacecraft crashed into and moved Dimorphos
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully changed the orbit of the small moonlet Dimorphos. NASA/Johns Hopkins APL David…
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.…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…