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As outlandish as it sounds, using X-rays from a nuclear bomb is backed by solid scientific evidence.
An unassuming Google Maps user might have found an ancient asteroid impact site hidden in the mountains of Canada.
We may or may not mine the asteroid — but in the meantime, researchers are finding out more things about it.
These asteroids are important for understanding the history of the solar system.
Asteroid sample challenges our assumptions about water in space.
When asteroids hit the Earth, they leave behind spectacular geological landmarks.
The Itokawa asteroid is basically one large pile of space rubble.
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Metals, rock, and craters are sprinkled all throughout its surface.
Researchers have described the discovery as "mindblowing."
Cockroaches have been on Earth far longer than humans and may outlast us. Here are a few reasons why.
A lone asteroid is scouting ahead of Earth's orbit. It's the largest Trojan found in Earth's system thus far.
The Asteroid Belt, the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt, nd the Oort Cloud are the motherships.
Ryugu is helping unravel the origin and evolution of our Solar System.
Weather may have been unsuspectedly pleasant on the worst day in dinosaur history.
Big-brained birds were better at adapting to their rapidly shifting environment -- and that may have ultimately saved them.
It's always best to be prepared, especially when it comes to asteroids.
A reminder that our asteroid monitoring program is riddled with gaping holes.
The whole thing will be live streamed on NASA TV.
The huge "dog-boned" asteroid hurling through the solar system has now been imaged in unprecedented detail.
The asteroid 2021 PH27 is the closest asteroid to the Sun with a surface temperature hot enough to melt lead and completes an orbit in just 113 days.
... because the overall odds are still very low.
It's been so long since then that direct evidence simply isn't around any more.
Not everyone is thrilled, though: one such rocket recently plummeted back to Earth in uncontrolled re-entry.
If you like volcanoes, Earth isn’t a bad place to live on. After all, our planet is quite geologically active, and that also translates into a respectable level of volcanism. But when it comes to having a variety of flavors, the Earth can be a bit lacking. A new paper, however, comes to estimate what […]
It's so ancient it could help us understand the building blocks of planets.
Astronomers have proposed a novel theory that explains the demise of the dinosaurs.
The closest one should pass around the same distance the Moon orbits at.
Despite the global pandemic that has brought much of the world to a grinding halt, space scientists have continued to push the boundaries of our knowledge throughout 2020.
This would be very helpful.
Suffering from success.
Getting excited over a handful of dirt is sometimes very warranted.
Good luck!
Hopefully it's better at parallel parking than I am.
They killed the dinosaurs but might have also kicked off life as we know it.
Any sign of this ancient onslaught has been erased from the surface of Earth, but the moon still has the scars to prove it was real.
During an asteroid impact, angles matter.
It isn't hyperbole to say, the survival of our species may depend on a sucessful method of preventing an asteroid impact.
No need to fear it -- just don't look at it.
Small but significant.
"It's traveling so fast it almost doesn't care that the Sun is there."
Molten rock shooting for the moon, huge tsunamis hundreds of feet tall, and global wildfires were triggered immediately after the impact.
It's a remarkable achievement.
It was 'imported' from space via a meteorite impact.
Don't panic -- this is just a drill.
The mystery of Earth's water may have been solved by a team of Japanese researchers.
Duck and cover!
The blast might help scientists answer fundamental questions about the solar system's formation.
"With the [new method] we can spot objects regardless of their surface color, and use it to measure their sizes and other surface properties," said the researchers.
A well-known asteroid is spectacularly disintegrating before astronomers' eyes.
