A harmless asteroid will zoom past Earth on Saturday. Here's how to spot it
An asteroid will pass harmlessly past Earth this weekend. With the right equipment and timing, you might just be able to spot it. The space rock, called 2024 MK, will…
A rare asteroid fastball hazard is turning scientists into sluggers
This article originally appeared on Dark. On a fall evening in 2022, scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory were completing the final stages of a planetary defense…
Mars may have an asteroid problem
Astronomers have been exploring the sky for years to catalog and track so-called galaxies Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), asteroids and comets that approach or cross the orbit of our planet. Humanity…
Asteroid samples, potentially habitable planets and more space finds from NASA from the past year
NASA regularly announces new discoveries and findings. The research is consistent and is conducted in space aboard the International Space Station and here on Earth. Some of NASA's greatest achievements…
'Lucy's Baby' asteroid is only about 2 to 3 million years old
A newly discovered asteroid is a toddler in space years. The moon around the small asteroid Dinkinesh called Selam is about 2 to 3 million years old. Scientists arrived at…
