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A rare dinosaur skeleton and a Martian meteorite rock led to bidding wars at Sotheby’s, marking new auction records.
The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
W hen an asteroid made Meteor Crater in northern Arizona, it did more than leave the Earth’s best preserved impact crater.
A chunk of the Martian surface that made an unlikely voyage to Earth will be available to the highest bidder at Sotheby's auction in New York.
"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...
Experts believe pieces of a small asteroid that lit up the night sky over parts of the UK on Thursday have landed in the west Highlands. Dozens of people reported an orange glow and a "bang", and the ...
I was preparing for my early morning class back in January 2025 when I received a notice regarding an asteroid called 2024 YR4. It said the probability it could hit Earth was unusually high.
The Earth is at risk of a city-killer asteroid strike in 2032 For a short time, the Moon blocked astronomers from tracking the asteroid clearly.
Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send debris hurtling towards our planet that could take out orbiting satellites ...
Asteroids with ‘unstable orbits’ hide around Venus—do they threaten Earth? New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.
A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but it still has a chance of smashing into the moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4, first ...
A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4% chance of smashing into the moon, according to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope.