Tag: asteroids

Samples from the asteroid Ryugu collected by the Hayabusa2 mission contain nitrogenous organic compounds, including the nucleobase uracil, which is ...

Artwork of an asteroid and planet earth.getty A newly found asteroid about the same size size of a house will ...

Like a sports photographer at an auto-racing event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a series of photos of asteroid Dimorphos ...

One of Earth’s neighbors just had twins – twin asteroids.  Although it’s more accurate to say our neighbor became twin ...

Nasa is to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid in a test of whether it would be able to keep ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is debating whether to try to fix a jammed solar panel on its newly launched ...

NASA launched its "Lucy" spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida, early Saturday morning. Over the course of 12 years, the probe ...

Only four spacecraft have ever landed on an asteroid – most recently in October 2020 – but none has peered inside one. Yet understanding ...

Humans are also considering mining asteroids for metals, but one of the crucial reasons scientists study this ancient space rubble ...