AuthorSamples from asteroid RyuguJAXA Future astronauts could eat a nutritionally perfect diet made from bacteria reared on ground-up asteroids, to produce a kind of milkshake or yogurt. While astronauts on…
The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will study the asteroids Dimorphos aided by two CubeSats called Juventas and MilaniESA/ScienceOffice.org Two years after a NASA spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos,…
What Earth may have looked like with a ring After a near miss with an asteroid 466 million years ago, Earth may have developed a Saturn-like ring of debris that…
Asteroid 2024 RW1 seen over the PhilippinesAllan Madelar/Facebook The surprise discovery of asteroid 2024 RW1, mere hours before it hit Earth harmlessly this week, may have you wondering whether we…
The predicted path of asteroid CAQTDL2 over the PhilippinesCatalina Sky Survey/ESA Astronomers have just discovered that an asteroid is about to strike Earth at thousands of kilometres per hour, impacting…
The predicted path of asteroid CAQTDL2 over the PhilippinesCatalina Sky Survey/ESA An asteroid hit Earth and burned up in the atmosphere just east of the Philippines. It was discovered by…
The solar system’s largest moon, Ganymede, alongside Jupiter in a picture taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraftNASA/JPL/University of Arizona A massive collision billions of years ago may have dramatically reoriented Ganymede,…
We may no longer have to fear unseen Empire State Building-sized space rocks passing within our orbit. Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tech that could…
This redefined a long-distance call. Earth just received a laser transmission from a world- (and perhaps universe) record-breaking 140 million miles away — which could have major implications for the…
Long-exposure photo showing the trail of asteroid 2024 BX1 shortly before impact. The changes in brightness are caused by the asteroid’s spinL. Buzzi, Schiaparelli Astronomical Observatory, Italy (MPC 204) An…
