This week, a newly found asteroid will approach Earth quite closely. Gennadiy Borisov, an astronomer at the MARGO Observatory in Crimea, found asteroid 2023 BU on Saturday, January 21. Its width is estimated to be between 12 and 28 feet ...
Sometimes asteroids come dangerously close to Earth, but they always miss us by a safe margin. Amazingly, astronomers have discovered three NEAs that were previously invisible due to the Sun’s intense light. These asteroids include the largest potentially dangerous object ...
NASA reveals the approach of another asteroid that gives us the creeps. Today, November 7, the space rock dubbed ‘2022 UN21’ will make its closest approach to our planet. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA brings the news regarding the ...
What about these new asteroids known as ‘Planet Killers’? Astronomers have detected three asteroids near Earth. Two of them are a potential threat as ‘planet killer’ because of their hazardous and large size, but the good part is that they ...
If the dinosaurs had NASA, they would still be roaming the surface of the Earth today. The speculation belongs to the American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and it reminds us all of how truly fragile our planet can be in ...
NASA’s latest spacecraft, dubbed Lucy, will pass by Earth on its way to the distant Jupiter Trojan asteroids, passing only a few hundred miles away from us. According to NASA, some fortunate viewers may be able to see Lucy from ...
In a first-of-its-kind test to safeguard our planet, a spectacular asteroid collision rammed a NASA probe into a space rock. The impact proved more powerful and effective than experts had anticipated. On September 24, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, aka ...
Soon, a far-off asteroid will be intentionally hit by the NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). It sounds so ambitious that even our wildest SF dreams can’t beat that! This space mission marks humanity’s first effort to purposefully crash a ...
The classic scientific explanation for why the dinosaurs aren’t here nowadays is that a huge asteroid of about 5 km in its radius smashed into Earth about 66 million years ago. Unfortunately for our giant friends or not, they didn’t ...
Once again, we must be aware of a huge asteroid that’s approaching our planet, unfortunately. 2022 RJ2 is the star of the show this time, and thankfully, we’ll get a happy ending. Asteroids can come in many sizes and shapes, ...