New Research Offers a Surprising Explanation for the Tunguska Event
More than a century ago, the strange, so-called Tunguska event took place in Siberia, felling more than 80 million trees…
NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex Probe Flew At 75 Meters Above Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft that’s analyzing the surface of the Asteroid Bennu is preparing to make the larges step in its…
Massive Asteroid OR2 Passed Next To Earth Yesterday
A space object more than a mile wide passed next to us, but the researchers already knew that it poses…
OSIRIS-Rex Is Getting Ready To Sample Asteroid Bennu
The OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft is currently during its mission in the outer space. On the 9th of April, the shuttle managed…
Potentially Dangerous Asteroid Will Approach Earth Next Month
A massive rock from space has the potential of hitting our planet in April 2020. However, the giant asteroid does…
Asteroid Threat Just “Flew Away” As Three Space Rocks Have Just Passed Next To Earth
A trio of asteroids traveling at a top speed of 26,037 miles per hour (or 41,904 kilometers per hour) has…
Ancient Asteroid Impact Crater Found In The United States
Earth is no strangers to asteroids, hitting its surface and shaping its history. While not all ancient asteroid impact events…
Threat Averted – The Asteroid that was Predicted to hit Earth Disappeared
Recently, space agencies warned us an asteroid, 2006 QV89, which was getting closer and closer to Earth in the fall.…
NASA To Survey “Golden” Asteroid 16 Psyche With A Mission In 2022
Until now, the rush for gold attracted many people that wanted to get rich quick to almost every part of…
Apophis Asteroid, Visible With The Naked Eye, Would Pass Next To Earth in 2029
An enormous asteroid with a diameter of 335 meters will pass the Earth at a distance of ten times closer…
Asteroid Might Hit Earth In 2027, But NASA Has A Plan To Defend The Planet
Researchers estimate that there is a risk of one percent that a space rock will crush onto our planet on…
SpaceX and NASA Are Joining Forces To Crash A Space Probe Into An Asteroid
Earth will have a new team of superheroes against an apocalyptic asteroid impact. NASA asked Elon Musk for help regarding…
Dinosaurs Were Flourishing Before The Chicxulub Asteroid Killed Them
Before dinosaurs were suddenly demised by an asteroid strike (the Chicxulub asteroid), the long-term climate change was not affecting them,…
The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Triggered A One-Mile-High Tsunami
A group of US researchers discovered that the asteroid that caused the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago generated…
An Asteroid may hit Earth in the Following Decades
A giant asteroid may collide with Earth in the following decades as researchers identified more than 62 trajectories that may…