Dinkinesh (Amharic for "marvelous") was randomly selected as an engineering test for Lucy's terminal tracking system that allows the spacecraft to autonomously pinpoint an asteroid's location and keep ...
Scientists have scarcely begun studying pristine material from asteroid Bennu brought back to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
A test to protect Earth from asteroids unleashed a swarm of boulders—and a new study suggests that there may be some ...
The devil comet will reach its closest point to Earth in June 2024, but will no longer be visible from the northern ...
More than 8,000 volunteers combed through 430,000 images to discover 15 new active asteroids, according to a study in which ...
Dante Lauretta spoke with ABC News Live's Linsey Davis about his research into asteroids and how people can prepare for the ...
Some extraordinary asteroids have "activity"—comet-like tails or envelopes of gas and dust. NASA's Active Asteroids project ...
Yet NASA recently found evidence of an object that did indeed break apart in the Martian atmosphere after heating up — it ...
In 2012, director Lorene Scafaria imagined a bittersweet apocalypse in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. The story ...
An asteroid bigger than the Empire State Building is on a direct collision course with Earth, according to NASA. Dubbed Bennu ...
As many as five asteroids are set to fly by Earth till March 19. According to NASA, four of them will make their closest ...
Some extraordinary asteroids have “activity”—comet-like tails or envelopes of gas and dust. NASA’s Active Asteroids project ...