“As a bonus, it captured Mars images from a rare perspective,” NASA said in a press release. The spacecraft approached […]
Category: asteroids
We keep finding the raw material of DNA in asteroids—what’s it telling us?
Skip to content All your base are belong to… asteroids? This week’s result is just the latest in a growing […]
China extends its reach into the Solar System with launch of asteroid mission
Comet 311P/PanSTARRS was observed by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2013 with a set of six comet-like tails radiating from […]
Have we finally solved mystery of magnetic moon rocks?
NASA’s Apollo missions brought back moon rock samples for scientists to study. We’ve learned a great deal over the ensuing […]
Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
More data will likely reduce the chance of an impact to zero. If not, we have options. Discovery images of […]
Bennu asteroid samples yield watery history, key molecules for life
Clues as to how building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded. This photo of asteroid Bennu is […]