Asteroid

Asteroid samples from deep space lands on earth after seven-year journey

September 25, 2023

Asteroid samples from deep space lands on earth after seven-year journey

NASA's first sample from the asteroid Bennu was parachuted into the Utah desert on Sunday.

March 25, 2023
Asteroid 200 times more powerful than 'Fat Man' will come dangerously close to Earth on Sunday

Asteroid 2023 DZ2 would be visible with a decent set of binoculars or small telescopes.
January 16, 2023
Are we safe from a sudden asteroid strike? No, says India's first meteor scientist

For every potentially damaging asteroid spotted, there are millions falling towards the Earth unseen.
September 28, 2022
NASA's DART spacecraft hits target asteroid in first planetary defense test

NASA's DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed on Monday.
September 27, 2022
NASA's first planetary defense test successful, spacecraft hits target asteroid

A livestream showed images taken by DART's camera as the cube-shaped 'impactor' vehicle, streaked into the asteroid Dimorphos, about the size of a football stadium.
August 23, 2020
A tiny asteroid may hit Earth on Nov 3, predicts NASA

A car-sized asteroid flew past our planet over the last weekend, in the closest flyby of such space rocks on record. Scientists hardly had any information about it until it departed.
April 29, 2020
2-km-wide asteroid to fly past Earth on Wednesday

Asteroid 1998 OR2 was discovered by the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in July 1998, and for the past two decades astronomers have tracked it.