Astronomy5d
February 2025: What’s in the sky this month? Venus, Jupiter, and Mars continue to dominate the sky, and the Moon occults the Pleiades
Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...
CBS News8d
NASA brought back samples from asteroid Bennu. They revealed clues about the possible origins of life.
Many are pushing for a mission to collect rocks and dirt from the potentially waterlogged dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid belt. Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus also ...
Science Daily21d
Asteroids, Comets and Meteors News
Astronomers Find the Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected in the Main Belt Dec. 9, 2024 — Astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, 'decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt.
CNN6d
A newly discovered asteroid has a slim chance of hitting Earth in 2032
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Space agencies are ...
moneycontrol.com10d
A 14-year-old Indian boy from Noida discovers a new asteroid; here's how NASA reacts
has discovered an asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Soon, he will have the rare honour of naming it. The asteroid, provisionally named '2023 OG40,' was identified ...
Gizmodo5d
An Asteroid Has a 1-in-63 Chance of Hitting Earth in 2032—Here’s What That Means
Odds are a funny thing. 1-in-100, for example, sounds like a long shot—until you find out it’s the chance that an asteroid will impact Earth. In a surprising—but not definitive—turn of ...
The Conversation8d
Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
Bright deposits on the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt, contain sodium carbonate. The Cassini mission measured the same mineral in plumes on Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
Yahoo News6d
Astronomers find asteroid with 1% chance of hitting Earth: Should we be worried?
An asteroid recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years may have caused some alarm. Don't freak out – yet. Yes, the asteroid has little more than a 1% ...
Space.com7d
When is an asteroid not an asteroid? When it's Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, it turns out.
The discovery of a new asteroid this month has turned out to be anything but. In fact, it isn't even a natural object. The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla ...