Tag: asteroids

Fossils show leaf-eating insects tracked gum trees for millions of years

PALEONTOLOGY04/02/2025

How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to researchers at Penn State who found insect damage on fossil leaves from South America that...

The Greenland ice sheet is falling apart: New study

EARTH04/02/2025

Observing Greenland from a helicopter, the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I have thought we were skimming low over the waves of a fjord, before noticing the tiny shadow of a seabird far below...

Astronomers want your help hunting for asteroids

ASTRONOMY23/05/2023

Anyone can become an asteroid hunter thanks to a new program launched by astronomers at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. As...

Here’s how NASA is planning to protect Earth from asteroids and comets

ASTRONOMY01/05/2023

The large impact craters dotting our planet are powerful reminders that asteroids and comets strike the Earth from time to time. As often said,...

New study says left-over planetesimals, not asteroids, created the moon’s largest craters

ASTRONOMY15/12/2022

The moon's pock-marked surface tells the story of its history. It's marked by over 9,000 impact craters, according to the International Astronomical Union (IAU.)...

Good news for a change—NASA proves there’s a defense against killer asteroids

ASTRONOMY18/10/2022

The stock market is dipping, inflation is on the rise and there is no end in sight to the war in Ukraine. But not...

30,000 near-Earth asteroids discovered, and numbers are rising

ASTRONOMY13/10/2022

We have now discovered 30,039 near-Earth asteroids in the solar system—rocky bodies orbiting the sun on a path that brings them close to Earth's...

Space mission shows Earth’s water may be from asteroids

ASTRONOMY16/08/2022

Water may have been brought to Earth by asteroids from the outer edges of the solar system, scientists said after analysing rare samples collected...

Hopping space dust makes asteroids look rougher

ASTRONOMY11/07/2022

Like corn kernels popping in a frying pan, tiny grains of dust may hop around on the surface of asteroids, according to a new...

China plans system to take out asteroids hurtling toward Earth

ASTRONOMY02/05/2022

China plans to develop a system for monitoring asteroids that pose a threat to earth, highlighting the nation's growing ambitions for its space program. The...