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Five-mile asteroid impact crater below Atlantic captured in ‘exquisite’ detail by seismic data

EARTH
New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of the Atlantic Ocean have been published today by researchers at Heriot-Watt...

Hera asteroid mission’s side-trip to Mars

ASTRONOMY
ESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its target Didymos binary...

Team discovers evidence of cometary dust hitting the asteroid Ryugu

ASTRONOMY
Ryugu is a near-Earth asteroid that gained significant attention when the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission collected samples and returned them to Earth. These samples have...

“God of Darkness” asteroid Apophis set for historic Earth flyby

EARTH
In a bold extension of its mission, the spacecraft formerly known as OSIRIS-REx embarks on an unprecedented journey to explore asteroid Apophis. This celestial body is set...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft discovers 2nd asteroid during Dinkinesh flyby

ASTRONOMY
On Nov. 1, NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew by not just its first asteroid, but its first two. The first images returned by Lucy reveal...

An asteroid came uncomfortably close to Earth in July. Could we have stopped it?

ASTRONOMY
In July of this year, an asteroid roughly 30 to 60 meters across passed Earth to within one-quarter of the distance to the moon....

Asteroid dust caused 15-year winter that killed dinosaur

PALEONTOLOGY
Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid bigger than Mount Everest smashed into Earth, killing off three quarters of all life on the planet—including...

Sensitive instruments to explore metal-rich asteroid

ASTRONOMY
At the very center of the Earth is a core of metal—so hot and so deep down as to be unreachable and impossible to...

NASA asteroid sample contains life-critical water and carbon

ASTRONOMY
A sample collected from the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu contains abundant water and carbon, NASA revealed on Wednesday, offering more evidence for the theory that...

6 things to know about NASA’s asteroid-exploring Psyche mission

ASTRONOMY
The first-ever mission to study a metal-rich asteroid, Psyche aims to help scientists learn more about the formation of rocky bodies in our solar...

Asteroid rocks may hold secrets to the origin of the solar system

ASTRONOMY
Early Sunday morning, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft released a container that subsequently landed in Utah containing material from Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid in the solar...

Fossils show widespread plant extinctions after asteroid wiped out dinosaurs

PALEONTOLOGY
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid the size of San Francisco crashed into a shallow sea off the coast of modern-day Mexico and plunged...
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