Browsing: Asteroid

The end-Cretaceous extinction—the massive extinction event widely attributed to an asteroid impact that wiped out…

An asteroid is headed toward a close approach to Earth on December 22, 2032. But…

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself…

It was a swing and a miss for the first private attempt at an asteroid…

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being…

The Lucy spacecraft just got its first good look at the main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson…

The potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 caused consternation over the last few weeks as its…

2024 YR4 first caught astronomers’ eyes on December 27, 2024, and was marked as an…

Faced with the (very low probability) threat of an incoming asteroid impact, NASA is bringing…

The odds of an asteroid crashing into Earth in 2032 keep changing, and not in…