Over the past two-and-a-half years, a group of students from ETH Zurich have been developing a robot with three spindly legs ...
However, this is not the only asteroid that will come close to Earth today. There are four others, but they will not come as ...
The first asteroid is designated 517681 (2015 DE198), and the second is 439437 (2013 NK4). Both flights will take place one ...
Nearly 50,000 meteorites have been found in Antarctica and hundreds of thousands more could be recoverable. Each one tells a ...
The sun, at 4.6 billion years old, predates all the other bodies in our solar system. But it turns out that much of the water we swim in and drink here on Earth is even older. Up to half the water now ...
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 ...
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Meteorites are messengers from the depths of primordial time—cast-off fragments of asteroids and comets that formed alongside our sun from raw materials predating our star itself. But their ...
US space agency NASA has a huge armada of gadgetry deployed on Earth as well as in the skies to find out quickly if there are any threats to our planet from space bodies traveling by. Some of the ...
The citizen science program Active Asteroids is looking for volunteers from the public to sift through astronomical photographs of asteroids to look for signs of tails which may indicate the ...
Two airplane-size asteroids on Sunday will fly close to Earth today as per NASA's website. Additionally, a building-size asteroid will also approach Earth on 7 April. On Monday, two more asteroids ...
The collaboration between the Portland dance favorite and the acclaimed wind ensemble reaches deep into the past to examine ...