Amateur Astronomers Help Track Asteroid To French Impact Site
With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth’s atmosphere…
Liquid Water Once Flowed on Asteroid Ryugu’s Parent Body, Scientists Say
This water flow occurred on an ancient asteroid more than one billion years after its formation and was…
Asteroid strike gone wrong could put Earth in fresh danger, scientists warn
To do this, the team gathered data from the DART mission and developed a computational technique to figure…
The Tiny Cosmic “Keyholes” That Could Send Asteroids Back to Earth
Asteroid deflection could backfire if the impact shoves the rock into a cosmic keyhole, a hidden trapdoor in…
China proposes flyby mission to asteroid Apophis during 2029 Earth encounter
HELSINKI — Chinese scientists are proposing using a pathfinder spacecraft to make a flyby of asteroid Apophis when…
China planning mission to strike asteroid, alter its orbit: Report
China is moving forward with plans for an ambitious planetary defense mission aimed at testing whether a spacecraft…