The Taurid Meteoroid Stream, which is possibly responsible for the famous Tunguska and Chelyabinsk impacts, probably doesn't ...
The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by ...
SpaceX will launch Europe's Hera spacecraft on Monday (Oct. 7) toward the asteroid Dimorphos for a post-impact evaluation, ...
Scientists think that a second asteroid crashed into the Earth at the same time that a meteor was condemning the dinosaurs to extinction.
A nuclear bomb could save Earth from a catastrophic asteroid impact ... Ben Turner is a U.K. based staff writer at Live Science. He covers physics and astronomy, among other topics like tech ...
Astronomers in Arizona spotted a different visiting mini-moon — a tiny asteroid named 2020 CD3 — in Earth’s orbit in February 2020. It was estimated to measure 6 to 11 feet across ...
Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to ... Dana Taylor: SPACECAST 2020 made predictions about space defense initiatives. Can you share a bit about the ...
Earth has previously captured other temporary mini-moons, such as Asteroid 2020 CD3. Although that asteroid was first spotted whirling around Earth in February 2020 and departed a couple of months ...