Tag: Asteroid

Nasa: Stadium-sized asteroid to pass within 1.7m miles of Earth today – Times of India

A colossal asteroid, comparable in size to a skyscraper or to a football field, is set to make a close approach to Earth, coming...

The Dark Asteroid Ryugu Finally Comes Into the Light

Hayabusa2 also provided the researchers with unique opportunities to observe the asteroid at multiple angles, including hard-to-get images taken at “opposition.” This involved maneuvering...

The Thrusters Behind NASA’s Mission to the Asteroid Psyche

A satellite company named Maxar recently delivered a passenger-van-sized chunk of spacecraft to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. This chassis will serve as...

The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Birthed Today’s Rainforests

Colombia’s rainforest looked very different 66 million years ago. At present, the humid and biodiverse ecosystem is jam-packed with plants and is covered in...

Capsule with asteroid samples arrives in Japan for research – Times of India

TOKYO: A small capsule containing asteroid soil samples that was dropped from space by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft and landed in the Australian Outback arrived...

Asteroid as big as Burj Khalifa to fly by earth at 56,000mph on November 29

NEW DELHI: Just a few days before the year 2020 ends, December will be witnessing a flyby of a massive asteroid. An asteroid, said...

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