Asteroid-Seeking Spacecraft Snaps Poignant Views Of Earth
ESA's Hera spacecraft captured farewell views of Earth and the moon as it sails away into space to investigate the asteroid ...
En route to an asteroid, spacecraft snaps ghostly views of Earth
The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific ...
Asteroid-sample return mission enables researchers to conduct largest geophysical observation campaign of its kind
The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and with ...
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The Age of Dinosaurs Ended With Two Asteroid Impacts, Scientists Say
The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ...
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Saturn Finally Has A Trojan Asteroid, But Not For Long
The shortage of previous Trojans for Saturn is somewhat odd. There are more than 13,000 known Trojans of Jupiter. It’s no ...
The Day NASA Smashed an Asteroid: What It Was Like Inside Mission Control
The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.
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Earth unlikely to be destroyed by doomsday asteroid swarms, study explains
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.
The Dino-Killing Asteroid May Have Actually Been a One-Two Punch
The end of non-avian dinosaur’s time on Earth is often depicted as one big, knockout blow delivered by the cataclysmic ...
When a massive asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, ants began farming fungi
New research shows that ants have been farming fungi for 66 million years — thanks in part to the asteroid that fueled the ...
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Earth doesn't really have a second moon—but here's what would happen if we did
But experts say the asteroid was an important milestone in planetary defense research. Though there are hundreds of moons in our solar system, our planet only has one. And while thousands of ...
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Saturn’s first Trojan asteroid has finally been discovered
Saturn is known for its stunning rings and its many moons (four seen here), but they aren’t the planet’s only companions. Its first known Trojan — an asteroid that shares the planet’s orbit around the ...
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Scientists discover how ants took advantage of asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs
Ants started farming 66 million years ago in the aftermath of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, a new study suggests ...