Tag: asteroids

In Late June of 2025, the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory (Rubin) finally released its first images of dazzling stars, ...

Back to Article List Today in the history of astronomy, an asteroid flattens 830 square miles of Siberian forest. The ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 could result in the largest impact on the moon for the past 5000 yearsMARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to open a new eye on the universeOlivier Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory On ...

Back to Article List Today in astronomy history, father-son team Luis and Walter Alvarez suggest an asteroid killed the dinos. ...

Lunar craters could be a rich source of platinumNASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Craters on the moon could hold over a ...

A cataclysmic asteroid collision may not sound like the starting place for life. But 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub ...

Back to Article List Vesta’s classification has vexed astronomers for decades, but a recent study is forcing planetary scientists to ...

Back to Article List Asteroid Donaldjohanson was the second destination on the NASA mission’s itinerary — and its size and ...

One of the world’s greatest mysteries is how life on Earth began. Scientists have long sought to decipher where and ...