On April 20, the over 50-foot-wide Lucy spacecraft approached as close as some 600 miles from Donaldjohanson, which is aptly ...

A tiny bit of asteroid dust is rewriting what we know about the early solar system and about ourselves. Pope Francis Passes ...

The nearly 200 foot (60-meter) asteroid looks more like a flat disk — or not-quite-round hockey puck — than a potato. It also has a rapid rotation rate of about once every 20 minutes.

while those of asteroid Bennu were taken by the U.S. probe Osiris-Rex. The findings were published Monday in the British journal Scientific Reports. The team, including university project ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The perceived decline of dinosaurs before the asteroid impact 66 million years ago may be due to a poor fossil record rather than an actual decrease in species ...

An asteroid that could be the size of a 10-storey building will now miss Earth - but the chances of the space rock slamming into the moon have doubled. Asteroid 2024 YR4 briefly had a small chance of ...

"If it weren't for that asteroid, they might still share this planet with mammals, lizards, and their surviving descendants: birds." Richard Pallardy Social Links Navigation ...

Every six years, an asteroid by the name of Bennu passes by Earth. Bennu is a small, loosely compacted ball of black rocks that formed nearly 4.6 billion years ago. Recently, scientists ...

An asteroid that set off a global effort to determine if it would impact Earth in 2032 is no longer a threat to our planet. However, chances of a hit to the Moon are increasing. In March, the powerful ...

James Webb zoomed in on asteroid 2024 YR4, once a potential Earth threat, and found it’s a fast-spinning, rocky object about 200 feet wide—roughly the size of a 15-story building. (Artist’s concept.) ...

The asteroid 2024 YR, whose chance to hitting Earth lowered to almost zero, is now have an alarmingly high chance of striking Moon The asteroid 2024 YR, whose chance to hitting Earth lowered to ...

PARIS — A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4-percent chance of smashing into the moon, according to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope. The asteroid, ...