Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tech that could potentially stave off armageddon in the future. Instead of stargazing with a traditional ...
An asteroid that hit Earth’s atmosphere earlier this year was spinning once every 2.6 seconds, faster than any we knew of. Called 2024 BX1, the object – probably no more than 1 metre wide ...
It's 68 feet wide (aeroplane size) and belongs to the Apollo group. 4. Asteroid 2021 GQ5: It will fly past Earth at a distance of 33,70,000 km. It's 22 feet wide (bus size) and belongs to the Aten ...
On Tuesday, those scientists, with the Asteroid Institute and the University of Washington, revealed an even bigger bounty: 27,500 newly identified solar system bodies. That is more than were ...
Since 2002, that retired NASA astronaut, Stanford-educated astrophysicist Dr. Ed Lu, has served as the executive director of the nonprofit B612, where he now leads the group's Asteroid Institute.
And that is why space agencies like the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, otherwise known as NASA, devote so much money, time and attention to tracking each asteroid that comes too ...
And now, US space agency NASA says that one asteroid that is as big as 280 feet is all set to get very close to Earth tomorrow, April 21. This makes it as big as a building. Just imagine what will ...
A NASA experiment that sent a spacecraft slamming into the side of an asteroid may have sent debris flying into space, possibly into the path of Mars. The asteroid, named Dimorphos, was hit by ...
Scheduled to launch in October, Hera's main mission is to fly to the binary asteroid system called Didymos, surveying the surface of the smaller asteroid in the duo named Dimorphos. Dimorphos ...
There's a very cool experiment attached to a spacecraft on its way to a potentially metal asteroid. Late last year, NASA scientists pressed start on a highly anticipated space mission. Basically ...