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NASA has confirmed asteroid 2025 MM is approaching. The asteroid measures nearly 120 feet across—about the size of a small ...
The asteroid, also known as 469219 Kamo'oalewa, orbits the sun, so it remains a constant companion of Earth. It is too ...
A tiny grain from asteroid Ryugu has revealed djerfisherite, a mineral that normally forms in scorching, oxygen-poor settings ...
Sixty six million years ago, a colossal asteroid crashed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It triggered the ...
Occasionally, asteroids get caught in Earth’s orbit, temporarily becoming mini moons before continuing their cosmic paths.
"The United Nations declaration of June 30 as Asteroid Day is a very important milestone for us," Asteroid Day co-founder ...
World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...
I call Bennu the “trickster asteroid” because it constantly surprised us and ... doubt that Bennu’s surface was smooth—covered with a material the size of small gravel. And I repeated this description ...
The big sky country of the western North America is a world-renowned dinosaur playground. Household-name dinosaurs like ...
Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...
The freshly minted telescope discovered 2,000 previously unknown asteroids in just 10 hours. Weirdly, NASA doesn’t seem to ...