Selam may actually be younger than Lucy's namesake, the 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia in the 1970s.
NASA's DART mission hammered its target asteroid into a new shape. Here's how — NASA's Lucy asteroid-hopping spacecraft pins down surface ages of 1st asteroid targets The next closest flyby of ...
NASA's DART mission hammered its target asteroid into a new shape. Here's how — NASA's Lucy asteroid-hopping spacecraft pins down surface ages of 1st asteroid targets The next closest flyby of 2024 ...
An asteroid that hit Earth’s atmosphere earlier this year was spinning once every 2.6 seconds, faster than any we knew of. Called 2024 BX1, the object – probably no more than 1 metre wide ...
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 tomorrow, April 21. This makes it as big as a building. Just imagine what will ...
A small international team of planetary scientists has found evidence supporting the theory that the near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa is ejecta from the moon. In their paper published in the ...
A day after two 100-foot asteroids came very close to Earth, another asteroid is set to do the same today and NASA is tracking the space rock as it approaches our planet. Asteroids are space rocks ...
Vesta emerged in the first 1 to 2 million years after the solar system formed and is now the second largest body in the asteroid belt, which sits between Mars and Jupiter. Space scientists view ...
We may earn a commission from links on this page. This is radar image of a near-Earth asteroid similar to Apophis. We actually know very little about what Apophis looks like, but its pending flyby ...