Asteroid

A small asteroid, what some are calling a meteoroid, struck Earth’s atmosphere in the early hours of Monday over northern France creating a stunning shooting star effect. The 1m (3ft) meteoroid. which has been dubbed Sar2667 was seen shortly before...

The American space agency announced on Tuesday that its DART probe's recent attempt to deflect the path of an asteroid was successful. This marks humanity's first successful attempt to deflect an asteroid. NASA scientists have now confirmed that the orbit...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) probe deliberately struck an asteroid, leaving a trail of debris stretching out over ten thousand kilometers. A new image captured by a telescope in Chile indicates a remarkable picture of a comet-like plume spreading...

A global tsunami was caused by the asteroid responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs. The asteroid struck nearly sixty-six million years ago near the Chicxulub Puerto and Chicxulub Pueblo communities. Recently, a group of University of Michigan scientists revealed the...

The Dart probe, operated by NASA, collided with an asteroid and self-destructed as a result. The purpose of the collision was to see if space objects that could endanger Earth could be safely pushed aside. Right up until it...

NASA is preparing to intentionally collide a space asteroid the size of a large Egyptian pyramid into a spacecraft the size of a vending machine on Monday. Amazingly, you may view this historic event live today on September 26th. The...

For the first time ever, the finding of water in an asteroid sample by Japan's Hayabusa2 space mission sheds light on how the Earth's oceans may have originated. On Thursday, research teams from Tohoku University, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,...

NASA controllers will deliberately crash their $330 million spacecraft traveling at more than four miles per second into Dimorphos, an asteroid, in a few weeks, so as to destroy it. The purpose of this kamikaze science mission is for space...

Off the coast of West Africa, a potential asteroid impact crater has been found, providing new insights into the extinction of the dinosaurs. Uisdean Nicholson, a geologist at Heriot Watt University in the UK, and his team began poring over...

A never-before noticed asteroid the size of a bus made a close approach to Earth on Thursday passing within just 56,000 miles (90,000 kilometers). The asteroid, named 2022 NF, passed safely by our planet at about 23 percent of the...