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NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...
If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...
Despite a few months topping the hit list of the most dangerous asteroids, it is now certain that 2024 YR4 won’t hit our ...
A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and several years ago he saw something he couldn’t explain. Farnocchia works at ...
In an exciting new chapter for NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, the spacecraft is now just days away from its second asteroid flyby.
One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...
NASA recently tracked asteroid 2024 YR4, which initially showed a 3 per cent chance of hitting Earth in 2032. New data shows it's no longer a threat, but the incident highlights the need for strong ...
NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five other space rocks passing by our planet over the next two days. The asteroid ...
Understand the violence option means risking soldier sons' and daughters' lives in the struggle. Post-Hiroshima, obtaining or denying the valuable position risks escalation to nuclear devastation. The ...
The researchers reached the conclusion by studying 7,982 meteoroid trajectories and 540 potential meteorite falls.
UNLV geoscientist Arya Udry shares what motivates her in studying space, her work on the Mars Perseverance mission, and the world of knowledge a meteorite can bring.
How can we successfully collect and return samples from Mercury and Venus to Earth? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a pair ...