Scientists discovered 27,500 asteroids using Google Cloud and a new algorithm, THOR, enhancing Earth's defense capabilities.
Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tech that could potentially stave ...
"The key to protecting Earth from being hit by asteroids is knowing where all these are." More than 27,000 asteroids in our ...
Although small asteroids on collision courses with Earth are typically detected only when they crash into the atmosphere, scientists spotted this one roughly three hours before impact. That's not the ...
A recent study examined the effects of space weathering on Ryugu, an asteroid explored by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft.
By studying these altered rocks, researchers can study how asteroids colliding with Earth may have supplied the water molecules that formed our planet’s oceans billions of years ago. Meteorites ...
And now, US space agency NASA says that one asteroid that is as big as 280 feet is all set to get very close to Earth ...
While it is likely that Earth got a good amount of water, and other materials, from comets, the probable incidence of comet collisions with Earth in its distant past, in a period called the ...
The near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, which orbits alongside our planet as a 'minimoon,' may have originated from Giordano Bruno crater on the far side of the moon, new research suggests.
Interest in asteroids – both for better understanding Earth’s origins and their composition, which could lay the groundwork for miners – is skyrocketing, and experts say asteroid mining may ...