Fragments of the asteroid Bennu, carefully collected and ferried to Earth by a robotic spacecraft, contain the building blocks for life, NASA announced today. Access options Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription … Read more
Today’s birds began their evolution into more than 10,000 species long before the fateful collision, a new genetic study found. Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Gulf of Mexico. The catastrophe led to the extinction of as … Read more
Home Topics Science & Environment Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried deep in southeast Australia, scientists say By Andrew Glikson, UNSW Sydney • August 16, 2023 An illustration of a large asteroid entering the Earth’s atmosphere. Image credit: shutterstock New evidence … Read more
Asteroid name Number of observations Arc length (h) Epoch (MJD) RMS H MOID (au) CA dist. (LD) V_inf (km/s) ZTm0038 8 24.23 60169.002 1.183 19.90 0.0000296 15.84 Probabilities and scores NEO score MBO score DO score SO score 1.00 0.00 … Read more
Images from the first month after DART’s asteroid collision. Each frame is the average over an entire night’s observing. The Didymos asteroid system is in the centre and the stars appear as streaks.Credit: University of Canterbury Ōtehīwai Mt John Observatory/UCNZ … Read more
The James Webb and Hubble telescopes on Thursday revealed their first images of a spacecraft deliberately smashing into an asteroid, as astronomers indicated that the impact looks to have been much greater than expected. The world’s telescopes turned their gaze … Read more
reader comments 101 with 58 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] An international team of scientists used synchrotron radiation to image and analyze fossilized fish from the Tanis deposit in North Dakota. Some 66 million years ago, a catastrophic … Read more