OSIRIS-REx bringing asteroid samples to Earth - NASA explains

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Could NASA actually push an asteroid off course in time?

Planetary defense has moved from science fiction to a live engineering problem, and the stakes could not be higher. The ...

What is NASA saying about 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet? What to know

A mysterious interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS is about to make its closest approach to Earth in December 2025. Here's ...
Longmont Times-Call

Flashes on the moon: CU Boulder experts explain asteroid strikes and why they matter

The moon is pummeled by asteroids nearly every day, creating new craters constantly that can range from a few feet to many miles across. The asteroid impacts, when they’re large enough, create flashes ...
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A new study sized the asteroid at around 60 meters. Chances of it hitting the Moon may soon increase.

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
Reuters

New Mexico fossils show dinosaurs thriving just before annihilation

WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - A fossil site in New Mexico with numerous dinosaurs, including the gargantuan Alamosaurus, dates to shortly before the asteroid strike that abruptly ended the age of ...
Orange County Register

Dinosaurs were thriving in North America before the mass-extinction asteroid strike, study suggests

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still ...
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Dinosaurs were thriving in North America before the mass-extinction asteroid strike, study suggests

Dinosaur-Asteroid Strike This illustration provided by researchers in October 2025 depicts an Alamosaurus sanjuanensis in southern North America as an asteroid hits the Earth 66 million years ago, ...
The New York Times

Fossils of Some of the Last Dinosaurs in North America Have a Story to Tell

A trove of specimens from New Mexico may help settle a long-running argument about the diversity of dinosaurs before their extinction. A life reconstruction of Alamosaurus sanjuanensis, from the ...
SETI

Lunar Impact? Asteroid 2024 YR4 and the Risk to the Moon

The range of possible locations – represented by yellow points – of 2024 YR4 on Dec. 22, 2032. The range decreased from April to June as we gained more data and improved our certainty of the ...
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Scientists debate nuking asteroid that may hit the moon in 2032

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is estimated to have a 4% chance of hitting the moon in 2032. Now a group of researchers are debating how best to deal with the object ...
NBC New York

An asteroid might be heading for the moon. Should we nuke it?

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...