Meteorite That Smashed Through a New Jersey Roof Hid an Ancient Chemical Secret

Credit: SETI Institute A meteorite that blasted through a New Jersey roof carried a startling secret: evidence of ancient ...
Scientific American

Spacecraft will swarm asteroid Apophis during fateful 2029 Earth flyby

Space agencies around the globe are coordinating missions to visit the asteroid Apophis during a close encounter with Earth ...
Popular Science

Near-Earth asteroid not an asteroid at all

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Smithsonian Magazine

New Images Reveal That This Asteroid Is Actually Two Conjoined Space Rocks. They Form a Peanut-Shaped Object Called a ‘Contact Binary’

Asteroid Torifune as seen by Hayabusa2 from a little more than half a mile away JAXA / The University of Tokyo / Chiba Institute of Technology / Institute of Science Tokyo / AIST / Paris Observatory / ...
News 6 WKMG

NASA on track to beat China to the moon, administrator says

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the United States is on pace to return astronauts to the lunar surface before China gets there. “The Chinese are moving at ...
Ars Technica

There were not one, but two asteroid encounters this weekend

As the United States of America celebrated its 250th birthday on terra firma with fireworks displays this weekend, two Asian countries made some splashes of their own farther from Earth. On Sunday, an ...
Wired

How to See the Giant Asteroid That Will Pass by Earth This Weekend

The asteroid will be visible for several nights from different parts of the world. We'll tell you when and where to look, and what equipment you’ll need to spot it. The closest approach will occur on ...
IFLScience

Asteroid Up To Twice As Long As The Reflecting Pool Will Fly Closest It's Been To Earth In 400 Years This Weekend

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HotHardware

Amateur Telescopes Can Track A Massive Asteroid Hurtling Past Earth This Weekend

Backyard astronomers will be able to use their telescopes to focus in on a massive cosmic visitor when it "skims" past Earth this weekend. On June 27 especially, a large asteroid known as (152637) ...
Science Daily

NASA’s Lucy finds a wobbling peanut-shaped asteroid with signs of ancient water

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft discovered that asteroid Donaldjohanson is a wobbling, peanut-shaped relic born from a violent collision and slowly reshaped by the subtle force of sunlight. It also carries ...
IFLScience

NASA's Lucy Mission Finds Evidence Of Ancient Water On Asteroid Donaldjohanson

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...
Gizmodo

NASA Flyby Reveals Violent Origin of Weird Peanut-Shaped Asteroid

On April 20, 2025, the Lucy spacecraft swooped by an odd-looking asteroid, capturing close-up views of its peanut-shaped body and cratered surface. The images told a brutal origin story, one that ...