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Astronomers have identified a fascinating asteroid named 2025 MN45 using early data from the Legacy Space-Time Survey (LSST) Camera, the largest digital camera in the world,…
Asteroids are an intrinsic aspect of our solar system. Millions of rocky bodies orbit the sun, including those categorized as near-Earth asteroids, which occasionally come close…
Composite image of Fomalhaut’s dust belt (center hidden). The inset displays dust cloud cs1 taken in 2012 together with dust cloud cs2 from 2023. NASA, ESA,…
Illustration of an asteroid passing near the moonMark Garlick/Science Photo Library In 2025, the threat of a disastrous asteroid impact momentarily heightened when astronomers detected a…
Scientists have discovered an unexpectedly high quantity of pre-solar particles (dust from supernovae predating our solar system) in samples obtained from the near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu…
This rubbery material is a first for space observations and likely originated during the early formation of the solar system as Bennu’s parent asteroid heated up.…
A collaborative effort by researchers from the U.S. and Japan examined extracts from near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu, gathered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification,…
OSIRIS-REx sample NASA/Erica Blumenfeld & Joseph Ebersold Crucial components required for the emergence of life as we recognize it have been found in asteroid Bennu samples.…
Ryan Wills. Barry Hetherington. ESA; NASA; Adobe Stock For over five decades, Richard Binzel has been studying the skies for potentially hazardous asteroids. In 1995, he…
Asteroid 2024 YR4 might strike the moon Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library Astronomers have a limited timeframe to determine if they will intervene to stop asteroid 2024…
The NASA DART probe, depicted on the upper right, is on a trajectory to collide with the asteroid Dimorphos, shown on the left. Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins…
What action should humanity take if an asteroid is heading toward the moon? Why not attempt to divert these celestial bodies before they collide? Should we…
This water flow took place on ancient asteroids over a billion years after their formation, likely due to the heat generated by melting ice, which caused…
Tektite forms almost pure glass (with minimal crystalline inclusions) when space debris impacts the Earth, causing surface materials to melt and be ejected hundreds or thousands…
Asteroids Fragmenting in Unforeseen Ways Wikimedia/CC-BY-SA-4.0 A rare asteroid explosion occurred in France two years ago, raising alarms regarding the planet’s defense against certain rocky bodies.…
A collision with an asteroid in an incorrect spot can increase the likelihood of it hitting Earth unintentionally.Bladaki/Shutterstock If an asteroid were on a collision course…
Asteroid Ryugu captured by Hayabusa 2 spacecraft Credit: JAXA Hayabusa 2 A significant amount of water once cascaded along the surface of an asteroid, indicating that…
The initial bodies that formed in the solar system gathered materials from stars, presolar molecular clouds, and protozoan debris. Asteroids that have not experienced planetary differentiation…
NASA’s Lucy Mission is actively examining images obtained during its encounter with the carbonaceous asteroid Donald Johansson on April 20, 2025. Donald Johanson is located on…
Yellow spotted tropical night lizard (Lepidophyma flavimaculatum) Dante Fenolio/Science Photo Library A unique and elusive group of lizards remains today, recognized as the only terrestrial vertebrates…
Asteroid 2024 YR4 may create the largest lunar impact in the past 5,000 years Mark Garlic/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Originally believed to be on a collision…
The asteroid called Donald Johansson was captured by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft during a flyby on April 20, 2025. On the closest approach, the spacecraft was at…
NASA Lucy Spaceship This weekend, we will be heading past a small asteroid as we will continue our path to even bigger prizes: Unexplored: A flock…
Astronomers using Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) A telescope in southern Gemini determined that the recently discovered nearby asteroid 2024 YR4 is one of the largest objects…
The destructive forces of shocking asteroids are estimated primarily by knowledge of their size. Near Earth Asteroid 2024 YR4 reached a peak 2032 impact probability on…
Astronomers from SETI Institute, NASA’s Ames Research Center, and Curtin University have tracked the impact orbits of 75 observed metstone waterfalls to previously unidentified source regions…
Mars appears bright blue in this near-infrared image taken by Hera's spacecraft. The month's deimos is a dark mark towards the center of the imageESA Space…
The near-Earth asteroid called the 2024 YR4 has been closely monitored over the past few months as its chances of impacting Earth increased to about 3%…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flies by the small asteroid Donald Johansson on April 20, 2025. By flashing between images captured by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft on February 20th…
Astronomers raced to observe asteroid 2024 YR4 NASA/Magdalena Ridge 2.4M Telescope/New Mexico Institute of Technology/Ryan The world’s space agency has reduced the chance that asteroid 2024…
The artist's impression of what asteroid 2024 YR4 looks like as they approached Earth in December 2032NASA NASA downgraded the risk that the 2024 YR4 would…
The view of the two large gorge, the month of the month radly radiated from the Schrodinger basinNasasvsernie T. Wright The vast collision crater near the…
Small rocks in the universe revealed that life on earth could have come from asteroids. And life outside of earth suggests that we are one step…
The asteroid Benne is believed to be made of tile BLE fragments from the body 4.5 billion years ago, which contains materials generated beyond Saturn, which…
summaryThe NASA spacecraft returned to Earth from the asteroid Bennu in 2023.The first detailed analysis of the material reveals organic molecules, including components of life.This strengthens…
Webcam images show asteroid burning up in the atmosphere over SiberiaLensk LR/YouTube Astronomers discovered the asteroid, about 70 centimeters in diameter, hours before it exploded harmlessly…
Map showing where asteroid fireballs can be seen in SiberiaESA A dramatic but harmless spectacle will take place over Siberia today as an asteroid about 70…
456P/Panstars, an active main-belt asteroid first discovered in 2021, is repeatedly active, and its activity is linked to volatile ice formations, according to new observations from…
Bacteria on a sample of asteroid Ryugu observed using an electron microscopeMatthew J. Genge et al. 2024 Rocks brought back to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu…
Hidden somewhere in the dark of space, there is a giant asteroid on a collision course with Earth. If we don’t spot it and somehow stop…