Astronomers have spied an asteroid that may be heading for Earth: What we know so far
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow-up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is on a path that might lead to a collision with our planet on 22 December 2032.
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
CQ, about the size of a 15-story building, is expected to pass near Earth on February 5, 2025. Measuring 150 feet in width, ...
CQ, a 150-foot Apollo-class space rock, will fly past Earth tomorrow, February 5, at 60,898 kilometres per hour.
The 60-metre object has ‘one of the highest probabilities of an impact from a significantly sized rock ever’, says astronomer ...
The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power ...
Scientists are keeping close watch on the space rock, which was spotted last month and is currently heading away from Earth.
2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...
In August 2024, the ATLAS telescope in South Africa discovered asteroid 2024 PT5, a ten-meter-wide space rock roughly the ...
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NASA finds key molecules for life in OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples. Here's what that meansThere are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
Research reveals that an asteroid collision billions of years ago created a pair of grand canyons on the far side of the moon. U.S. and British scientists utilized photos and data from NASA’s Lunar ...
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