NASA's Lucy mission flyby asteroid Dinkinesh (aka 1999 VD57). The spacecraft will zip by the Main Belt asteroid at 10,000 mph (16,093 ... How the state plans to fix 'the worst insurance crisis ...
A newly discovered asteroid is a toddler–in space years. The moonlet circling the small asteroid Dinkinesh named Selam is about 2 to 3 million years old. Scientists arrived at this age estimate using ...
Selam may actually be younger than Lucy's namesake, the 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia in the 1970s.
We may no longer have to fear unseen Empire State Building-sized space rocks passing within our orbit. Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge ...
It gets so close that the line on NASA's trajectory map for the asteroid actually passes through Earth as it crosses the planet's orbit. Don't worry, this is a harmless space rock. An asteroid ...
A 2,000-foot asteroid is set to pass by earth Monday morning and if you don't catch it now, you'll have to wait more than a year to see it again. But you are going to need a telescope to see the ...
A NASA experiment that sent a spacecraft slamming into the side of an asteroid may have sent debris flying into space, possibly into the path of Mars. The asteroid, named Dimorphos, was hit by ...
Decades before nine young men from Washington captured gold in the '36 Olympics in Berlin, female athletes at the University of Washington were writing their own story. Women's rowing was formally ...
Two new high-quality polls show Robert F. Kennedy Jr. taking more votes from Trump than Biden. And they’re not the only polls to suggest a changing dynamic. Republicans will argue that ...
This asteroid is 4.5 billion years old, and we think objects like this may have brought the water that's in our oceans, the air that's in our atmosphere, and maybe even the molecules that led to ...
An asteroid discovered Tuesday (April 9) will make an extremely close, but harmless, pass by planet Earth today (April 11). Asteroid 2024 GJ2 is roughly the size of a car and, since its discovery this ...