Up close with a stony asteroid - CNN
Jul 16, 2024 · CNN — When a cruise liner-size asteroid comes within 19,883 miles (32,000 kilometers) of Earth on April 13, 2029, it won’t be alone. The European Space Agency has announced that its new Ramses...
A space rock is about to become Earth’s new ‘mini-moon’ - CNN
Sep 20, 2024 · CNN — Earth is about to gain a new “mini-moon,” but it won’t stay around for long. The newly discovered asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will temporarily be captured by Earth’s gravity and orbit our world...
Watch newly discovered asteroid fly between Earth and moon ... - Space.com
Jan 28, 2024 · Here’s how it works. Update for Jan. 28: Astronomer Gianluca Masi was able to capture some fascinating footage of asteroid 2024 BJ during its flyby of Earth on Jan. 27. Watch the space rock...
Meteorites from Asteroid 2024 Bx1, which just hit Earth ... - Space.com
Jan 31, 2024 · Following the event, on Monday (Jan. 22), intrepid meteorite hunters were out searching for fragments of Asteroid 2024 BX1. One team that hit pay dirt was led by SETI meteor scientist Peter ...
1st look at asteroid Bennu samples suggests space rock may even …
Feb 6, 2024 · Space.com caught up with two leading scientists now engaged in extracting and analyzing samples of asteroid Bennu retrieved by NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission.
Nasa hails 'awesome' rescue mission as asteroid sample reaches
Sep 24, 2023 · The container was released from Nasa's Osiris-Rex spacecraft a few hours earlier, before hurtling into Earth's atmosphere at 27,000mph - parachutes helped to slow its descent. Scientists believe...
‘Head-scratcher’: first look at asteroid dust brought to ... - Nature
Dec 12, 2023 · San Francisco, California. In the 2.5 months since NASA’s first asteroid sample-return mission landed safely on Earth, technicians have carefully plucked more than 70 grams of asteroid dust and...
In a first, NASA returns asteroid samples to Earth - NBC News
Sep 24, 2023 · The asteroid samples were collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which flew by Earth early Sunday morning and jettisoned the capsule over a designated landing zone in the Utah desert. The ...
NASA's Psyche spacecraft launches on first mission ever to a ... - NBC News
Oct 13, 2023 · A NASA probe launched into space Friday on a 2.2-billion-mile journey to a huge, metal-rich space rock in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The Psyche spacecraft lifted off...
Watch live: Nasa unveils first sample from Bennu asteroid - BBC News
Oct 11, 2023 · Scientists at US space agency Nasa have been holding a news conference where they have unveiled first pictures of the space rock extracted from the Bennu asteroid. The material, scooped up by a...