Asteroid
Volcanoes or Asteroid? AI Ends Debate Over Dinosaur Extinction Event
Dartmouth scientists used an innovative computer model to suggest that volcanic activity, rather than an asteroid impact, was the primary ...
“We Never Suspected Anything So Bizarre!”
This image shows the asteroid Dinkinesh and its satellite as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI) as NASA’s ...
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Makes “Marvelous” Discovery During Asteroid Dinkinesh Flyby
This image shows the “moonrise” of the satellite as it emerges from behind asteroid Dinkinesh as seen by the Lucy ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has “phoned home” after first high-speed asteroid encounter
NASA launches spacecraft on 12-year mission NASA launches spacecraft on 12-year mission 09:27 A spacecraft exploring an asteroid belt successfully ...
NASA Is Struggling to Open Its Asteroid Sample Container
About a month ago, pristine samples from an asteroid landed on Earth while enclosed within a tight capsule. The sample ...
Webb Observes 3 Dwarf Planets in the Kuiper Belt
In this artist’s visualization, the newly discovered planet-like object, dubbed ‘Sedna,’ is shown where it resides at the outer edges ...
Video Shows NASA Probe Dispatching Asteroid Capsule to Earth
A view from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft as it dropped off its sample canister on September 24.Gif: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed ...
Telescope Spots OSIRIS-REx Returning From Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s $800 million OSIRIS-REx mission launched to space in September 2016 with a simple, albeit ambitious, objective: travel to a ...
Asteroid Displays Odd Behavior in Wake of NASA’s DART Strike
After the successful impact of NASA’s DART mission on the Dimorphos asteroid, scientists have encountered a series of unexpected outcomes, ...
