An asteroid flew past Earth on Monday closer than the distance to the moon after only being detected by scientists last week. The hurtling space rock, dubbed 2024 CY1, is the size of a double decker bus and potentially weighs 100s of tonnes.
The dramatic moment an asteroid entered the earth’s atmosphere and disintegrated has been captured on camera by an expert astronomer. Dr Michael Aye, a researcher at the Berlin Institute for Planetary Research, captured the extraterrestrial object as it exploded high in the
There are an estimated 1.1 to 1.9 million asteroids in the Solar System’s asteroid belt, a vast stretch of space rocks that sit between Mars and Jupiter. While many of them will for their lives pose little threat, sometimes, their orbits can
A NASA spaceship has been launched to investigate the so-called “God of Chaos” asteroid that could reach the Earth’s orbit. OSIRIS-APEX has been sent to study the Apophis asteroid which is due to fly by Earth in 2029. While not expected to
Scientists had been working on the various samples that crashed to earth before coming across mysterious black dust. The small capsule made the 63,000-mile journey to Earth from the Osiris-Rex spacecraft this week. It contained bits of rock from the menacing Bennu
A space capsule carrying NASA’s first asteroid samples has landed back on Earth in a historic first that could reveal human origins. This marks the end of NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission – for seven years, scientists have been flying to Asteroid Bennu to
NASA To Bennu and Back: Journey’s End with OSIRIS-REx After a seven-year, four-billion-mile journey across space, an ambitious NASA mission to collect the biggest-ever sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth will reach fruition today. OSIRIS-REx — the “Origins, Spectral
After spending over seven years in space and traveling nearly 4 billion miles, a capsule containing precious asteroid samples will return to Earth on Sunday. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft – which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer – launched
Scientists have revealed the exact date an asteroid could smash into the earth with the force of 22 atomic bombs. The asteroid, Bennu, passes our planet every six years but it has been predicted that Earth could come into contact with it
An asteroid twice the size of the Statue of Liberty is reportedly on course to “closely approach” Earth later this month. NASA has added the asteroid – named 2023 CL3 – to its Earth Close Approaches list, which carefully monitors large space