NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft landed on an asteroid 200 million miles away to bring a sample of its dust to bring back to earth for testing.…
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by Tyler Durden NASA reports a small near-Earth asteroid (or NEA), the size of a “small school bus,” will buzz Earth Thursday (Sept. 24) at a distance closer than the…
by Michael Snyder Did you know that an asteroid just flew by our planet at an extremely close distance? The good news is that it…
Study says surge in volcanic activity could not have caused Cretaceous/Paleogene extinction event Nicola Davis A 66m-year-old murder mystery has finally been solved, researchers…
‘This one did sneak up on us’: Internal NASA emails reveal how it almost ‘missed’ a football-field-sized asteroid so big it could have destroyed a…
Until recently, researchers described the distant asteroid called Ultima Thule to be a bowling pin in space. But new images taken by a NASA deep…