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 ...
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The Dinosaur Age Ended With Not One, but Two Asteroid Impacts, Scientists Say
Scientists now say that's almost precisely what happened to the dinosaurs, on a much bigger scale: the asteroid that hit ...
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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 ...
Asteroid-sample return mission enables researchers to conduct largest geophysical ...
The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and with ...
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 ...
A huge 170-foot, airplane-sized asteroid, accompanied by two smaller asteroids, is heading ...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is actively monitoring three asteroids making close approaches to Earth on 13 October ...
A large asteroid, approximately 1,300 feet wide, is set to approach Earth on October 12.
A large asteroid, approximately 1,300 feet wide, is set to approach Earth on October 12. Known as 363027 (1998 ST27), it will ...
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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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 ...
Is Earth destined for another extinction-level asteroid event? | The Excerpt
Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...