Ryugu Surprises Scientists Again: New Clues Reveal Asteroid’s Birth Near Jupiter
Samples from asteroid Ryugu have once again surprised scientists, challenging previous ideas about how carbon-rich asteroids ...
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An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs — But it invented something amazing for ants
Scientists have found that after the asteroid wiped out many plants, ants started farming fungi to help them survive and get ...
En route to an asteroid, spacecraft snaps ghostly views of Earth
The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid. But on the way there, the probe looked back home, ...
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A Close Asteroid Encounter May Have Once Given Earth a Ring
An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...
Researchers Link Asteroid Ice to the Emergence of Life on Earth
Ice on ancient asteroids like Ryugu may have been crucial in kickstarting life on Earth. Researchers from Imperial and ...
A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test
A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed ...
Earth's moon has a friend this month, an asteroid known as 'mini-moon'
The "mini-moon" is going to continue to orbit Earth with our moon for a total of 57 days. On Nov. 25, the asteroid is ...
How did cockroaches survive the asteroid that led to the extinction of dinosaurs?
The meteor’s impact triggered a cascade of effects. It kicked up so much dust that the sky darkened. As the sun dimmed, ...
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Earth unlikely to be destroyed by doomsday asteroid swarms, study explains
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.
The Dino-Killing Asteroid: A Possible One-Two Punch
Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.
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The Age of Dinosaurs Ended With Two Asteroid Impacts, Scientists Say
The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ...
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Hera probe snaps its 1st images of Earth and moon on way to asteroid crash site
The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos on Oct. 7, meant to follow up on NASA's ...