Explore the Massive Meteor Crater in Arizona From Space
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission reveals the Meteor Crater in Arizona, a significant geological feature created by a meteorite impact 50,000…
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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission reveals the Meteor Crater in Arizona, a significant geological feature created by a meteorite impact 50,000…
Meteorite impacts pepper Mars at a rate up to 10 times more frequent than previous estimates, according to two new…
Earth is surrounded by rocky bodies and bits of debris from when the solar system formed roughly 4.5 billion years…
On September 24, 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped a capsule to Earth containing pristine carbonaceous regolith collected from the near-Earth…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has observed evidence pointing to asteroids colliding in a neighboring star system. Resultant dust…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft’s recent exploration of asteroid Dinkinesh not only highlighted the asteroid’s internal complexities but also led to a…
OSIRIS-APEX emerged “unscathed” from its closest-ever brush past our sun on Jan. 2, scientists announced on Tuesday (May 28). The…
This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft headed to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche in the main asteroid belt between Mars…
The 360-meter diameter asteroid Apophis will come very close to Earth on April 13, 2029. Credit: Jonathan Maennel / with…
A family of primitive asteroids is providing astronomers with a window into the past as they seek to unravel the…