Hera mission set to revisit asteroid
SpaceX will launch Europe's Hera asteroid probe on Oct. 7
When a massive asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, ants began farming fungi
New research shows that ants have been farming fungi for 66 million years — thanks in part to the asteroid that fueled the ...
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A spaceship punched an asteroid — we’re about to learn what came next
ESA’s Hera mission will study a rock called Dimorphos, which was blasted by NASA, to work out how successful that approach ...
Is Earth destined for another extinction-level asteroid event? | The Excerpt
Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...
Investigating the possibility of using asteroid material to grow edible biomass for astronauts
A team of engineers and planetary scientists at Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration, in Canada, ...
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Asteroid that doomed dinosaurs created ant agriculture, Louisiana researchers say
LSU AgCenter mycologist Vinson P. Doyle and LSU Department of Biological Sciences professor Brant C. Faircloth lent their combined expertise to a study led by Smithsonian Institution entomologist Ted ...
An asteroid known as a 'mini-moon' will join Earth's orbit for 2 months starting Sunday
A small asteroid will join Earth's orbit around the sun for two months beginning Sunday, becoming a 'mini-moon.' ...
Meet SpaceHopper, a three-legged hopping asteroid explorer
The bouncy bot was designed by university students in Switzerland for exploring microgravity environments, such as asteroids.
Asteroid alert by NASA! Two giant airplane-sized asteroids are approaching Earth at a frightening speed today
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is monitoring two asteroids, 2022 FC5 and 2022 SU21, both expected to pass near Earth ...