Not all asteroids are alike. Some of them, known as “active” asteroids, sport comet-like tails of gas and dust. Studying ...
Asteroids may have delivered them to Earth, but much like the planet’s water, these compounds could have also easily formed ...
A test to protect Earth from asteroids unleashed a swarm of boulders—and a new study suggests that there may be some ...
In 2012, director Lorene Scafaria imagined a bittersweet apocalypse in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. The story ...
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Mars is a desolate, irradiated, lifeless, windswept land. But it's also the site of dramatic activity, as space rocks pummel ...
According to another theory, amino acids, as well as some other key building blocks of life, such as carbon and water, could have come to the early Earth from space ... but it was destroyed by ...
More than 8,000 volunteers combed through 430,000 images to discover 15 new active asteroids, according to a study in which ...
An asteroid bigger than the Empire State Building is on a direct collision course with Earth, according to NASA. Dubbed Bennu, the massive 4.5 billion-year-old space rock is expected to make a close ...
The detection of some building blocks of life in the samples from asteroid Bennu brought to Earth could boost the theory of ...
Dante Lauretta, the planetary scientist who led the OSIRIS-REx mission to retrieve a handful of space dust, discusses his next final frontier.