As best as anyone can tell, if any hazardously sized asteroid were to hit Earth in the relatively near future, it would most ...
A crew wheels the OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sample return capsule into a cleanroom on Sept. 24, 2023. Credit: NASA ... onto a patch of Utah desert seven years later. It's the first U.S. mission ...
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
The Tunguska impact was a "city killer" type event, leveling forest across a city-sized patch of land ... capacity to deflect ...
Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...
Objects traversing our solar system have been misidentified several times in recent years, NASA ... to fly by an asteroid and snap images to investigate its surface. The mission marks one ...
The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.