COLORADO SPRINGS–Thirteen years ago a 20-m asteroid streaked without warning into Earth’s atmosphere before exploding over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,500 people and causing widespread ...
A tremendous explosion rocked the Tunguska region in Siberia in the early morning hours of June 30, 1908. The Tunguska ...
The dynamic exoplanet system TOI-201 is changing so rapidly that astronomers say it may look extremely different to us in two ...
A space rock the size of a big stadium will pass closer to Earth than some of our own satellites on the evening of April 13, ...
Secret Files: Tunguska – Remastered is the modernized edition of the award-winning point-and-click adventure from 2006—technically enhanced and visually improved, while staying true to the spirit of ...
File this in the “Better to learn about after-the-fact file”: A large asteroid flew past Earth Tuesday night, just days after it was discovered. The car-sized space rock, known as “2026 FM3,″ came ...
In 1998, Bruce Willis saved the world by blowing up an asteroid threat in “Armageddon.” In 2022, NASA did the real thing, crashing a spacecraft into asteroid Dimorphos to prove that we don’t have to ...
Life on Earth may have origins from far, far away. Scientists have found a full set of life-building molecules in a nearly pristine asteroid sample, and the discovery suggests that the necessary ...
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has spotted the fastest-rotating large asteroid ever seen. Despite measuring more than half a kilometre across, this asteroid spins about once every 1.9 minutes ...
It may sound fanciful, but a Los Angeles-based company says it has conceived of a plan to fly out to a smallish, near-Earth asteroid, throw a large bag around it, and bring the body back to a “safe” ...
TransAstra developed the Capture Bag to grab asteroids or defunct satellites. This render shows a spacecraft powered by TransAstra's Omnivore Solar Thermal Propulsion moving the asteroid to a ...