Agencies plan for near-Earth asteroid’s close encounter in 2032
A recently discovered, sizable asteroid may come within striking distance of Earth in less than eight years. But although the rock is potentially even larger than the one believed responsible for the historic Tunguska event in 1908, the odds are currently in humanity’s favor.
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
If you want to do it the easy way, you can see a livestream of the asteroid today from the comfort of your home via the Virtual Telescope Project. Asteroids are, by definition, irregular pieces of ...
A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...
NASA is tracking the path of a huge asteroid that will come hurtling past Earth at a staggering speed of 35,000mph later ...
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