Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes difficult pursuit of tracking deep-space objects.
That's good news for scientists and NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing ...
CQ, about the size of a 15-story building, is expected to pass near Earth on February 5, 2025. Measuring 150 feet in width, it will travel at a speed of 60,898 kilometers per hour. While it poses no ...
Researches have determined that ejecta from an ancient asteroid. strike carved out the grand canyons (Vallis Schrödinger and ...
The asteroid's reflectance spectrum matches the characteristics of lunar rocks collected during the Luna 24, Apollo 14, and Apollo 17 missions. Oscar Fuentes-Muñoz, co-author of the study ...
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side.
open image in gallery A May 1969 photo provided by NASA shows Earth from 36,000 nautical miles away as photographed from the Apollo 10 spacecraft. Asteroid 2024 YR4 could smash into Earth in 2032 ...