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Mini-moons like the one Earth just captured could be huge business opportunities

Mon, 09/30/2024 - 07:04

The sample collector from NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touching the rocky surface of the asteroid Bennu — NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collects a sample from an asteroid.
NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

Science, moon, Asteroids, asteroid-mining, Space

NASA Smashed Into an Asteroid in 2022. The Debris Could End Up Reaching Earth

Fri, 08/23/2024 - 12:36

The asteroid Dimorphos seen two seconds before impact by the DART mission.

Space, Asteroids, dart mission, NASA, potentially hazardous asteroids

Scientists think they've found the origin of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. It could help prevent a future mass extinction on Earth.

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 17:20

Dinosaurs gather around a pond near an ominous red sky — Many experts agree an asteroid led to the extinciton of the dinosaurs.
MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images

Science, Asteroids, dinosaurs, mass-extinction, Cretaceous, ruthenium

Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Has a Bizarre Origin Story

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 10:39

Illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

Space, Asteroids, chicxulub, dinosaurs

This Is the Last Image Taken by NASA’s Historic Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft

Fri, 08/09/2024 - 16:25

Infrared image of Fornax constellation taken by NASA's NEOWISE space telescope.

Space, Asteroids, Comets, NASA, Near-Earth Objects, satellites, space telescopes

Most Near-Earth Objects Could Be ‘Dark Comets,’ Neither Comets Nor Asteroids

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 07:35

Artist's impression of a dark comet in space

Science, Space, Asteroids, Comets, Near-Earth Objects

Scientists built a 3-ton camera with a 5-foot-wide lens to discover hazardous asteroids that NASA can't see

Wed, 04/03/2024 - 13:12

giant camera black segmented tube with lens inside on a white engineering mount in a cleanroom with a person in a white cleansuit standing at the bottom of the lens that rises about five feet above the person's head — Travis Lange, the deputy project manager of the LSST, shone a flashlight into the LSST Camera, which has a 5-foot-wide lens.
Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Science, cameras, Asteroids, NASA, Telescopes, dark-matter, dark-energy

The Asteroid Dimorphos Looks Totally Different After NASA's DART Mission Walloped It

Tue, 02/27/2024 - 12:40

In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a tiny asteroid to nudge it off its orbital course.

NASA, dimorphos, hera, binary asteroid, sabina raducan, Planetary Defense, liciacube

NASA released the first close-up photos of the largest asteroid sample ever collected

Fri, 10/13/2023 - 15:18

A circular piece of the container holding the Bennu asteroid sample with black rocks from the asteroid on it — The sample collector with a pile of asteroid material resting on it.
NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold

Science, osiris-rex, bennu, NASA, Asteroids

NASA is visiting an asteroid valued at more than the entire world economy's worth, but that's not why it's going there

Fri, 10/13/2023 - 13:46

graphic of what the asteroid is thought to look like — An artistic concept of what Psyche might look like.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Science, speed-desk, Space, Science, Asteroids, asteroid-belt, NASA

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