The burn set the spacecraft on course to rendezvous with Mars in March 2025. The Hera asteroid probe has passed a critical milestone on its journey to study the site of the first asteroid ...
It's been a busy week for asteroid watchers. A car-sized asteroid will pass at about half the distance between Earth and the moon tonight (Dec. 6), concluding a busy week for asteroid watchers all ...
Incredible footage has captured the moment an asteroid smashed through Earth's atmosphere over Siberia. The space rock, designated COWECP5, appeared in the night sky at 11:14pm local time (11 ...
Luckily, large asteroid crashes are uncommon ... or 19.5 times the distance to the moon. Its Asteroid Watch dashboard displays the date of the next five closest approaches, as well as each ...
Around 35.65 million years ago, two massive asteroids collided with Earth. Despite the scale of these asteroid impacts, a new study by researchers at University College London (UCL) reveals that they ...