Scientific American1d
A Near-Miss with a City-Killer Asteroid Highlights Gaps in Earth’s Defenses
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at JPL
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...
Worcester Magazine3d
Woo! Science: Asteroids, satellites and a sneaky solar eclipse are what's 'up'
A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...
NASA issues warning as potentially hazardous asteroid bigger than the Great Pyramid of Egypt makes its closest pass in 100 years tomorrow; here's how you can watch it
NASA is monitoring a large asteroid, 2014 TN17, which will pass Earth at a safe distance of about 3 million miles. The ...
Earth.com4d
What meteorites tell us about their birthplace in space
Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...
Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it—and others—will keep coming back
In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...
7 latest images of Dwarf Planets captured by NASA
Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.
Supernovas may have had a role in two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions, study suggests
A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...
Rowan Today7d
Ribbon cutting opens Jean & Ric Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University
On Thursday, March 20, Rowan held a ribbon cutting for the museum named by Smithsonian Magazine one of its top 10 most ...
A giant 540-foot asteroid as big as the Taj Mahal is set for a close encounter with Earth on this date
TN17, a giant space rock as big as the Taj Mahal, is hurtling towards Earth at 77,282 km/h, classified as a potentially ...