Scientists Discover a New Meteor Shower From a Mysterious Crumbling Asteroid
This composite image shows the 2019 Geminid meteors and a meteorite-dropping fireball captured by a camera on La…
NASA says giant asteroid will skim closer to Earth than satellites
Brace yourself for a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic spectacle that sounds almost too unreal to believe: NASA has confirmed that…
‘God of chaos’ asteroid will be once-in-a-lifetime event visible to the naked eye — and closer than many satellites: NASA
Houston, we may have a problem! A rare, colossal-sized asteroid is on course to fly by Earth —…
Vera C. Rubin Observatory Discovers Over 11,000 New Asteroids
Astronomers using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered over 11,000 new asteroids, including hundreds of trans-Neptunian objects…
Researchers Prove a Stadium-Sized Asteroid Slammed into the North Sea Triggering a 330-foot Tsunami
AI-generated image of the asteroid impact. Cracking a cold case is always tricky. But figuring out one from…
DNA building blocks on asteroid Ryugu, bacteria that eat plastic waste, and more science news
Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off…
All 5 ‘letters’ of DNA found on an asteroid speeding through our solar system. What do they tell us about the origins of life?
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DNA’s Building Blocks May Have Arrived from Space, Asteroid Ryugu Samples Suggest
Samples returned by JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 mission from the C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases —…
Bus-sized asteroid to make close flyby of Earth
A newly discovered bus-sized asteroid is set to fly past Earth late on March 12, passing closer than…
Asteroids Throw Debris at Their Moons, DART Reveals
Around 15 percent of near-Earth asteroids have small moons, which suggests binary systems are fairly common. Many of…
NASA says asteroid 2024 YR will miss moon in 2032
NASA issued a welcomed all-clear Thursday, saying there’s now zero chance that asteroid 2024 YR will crash into…
Extremophile Bacteria May Hitch Rides on Asteroid Fragments
Earlier work has demonstrated that an extremophile bacterium species called Deinococcus radiodurans can survive the radiation, cold, and…