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First-ever image of China's mysterious 'quasi moon' probe revealed weeks after it secretly launched into spaceA new image released by China's space agency offers the first glimpse at the Tianwen 2 spacecraft, which is en route to collect samples from one of Earth's "quasi-moons". The photo shows some surprising similarities with a current NASA probe.
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Vesta, the 2nd-largest asteroid in the solar system, may be a piece of a lost planetVesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new study hints.
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Dinosaurs might still roam Earth if it weren't for the asteroid, study suggestsThe dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and unexposed late Cretaceous rock layers mean they're either not preserved or hard to find.
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft snaps first close-ups of weird peanut-shaped asteroidNASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 surprises scientists with 'unusual' shape and could slaphsot the moonThe once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates through space on a trajectory that could see it hit the moon.
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'Potentially hazardous' pyramid-size asteroid will make its closest flyby of Earth for more than 100 years this WednesdayThe hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by this Wednesday (March 26). Researchers will monitor it carefully during its close approach.
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52-foot-high 'megaripples' from asteroid that killed the dinosaurs mapped deep beneath Louisiana in 3DBuried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation following the impact that wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs.
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'That's Zero Folks!': Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer a hazardThe likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 rose and fell last week. NASA's impact odds are now so slim that the asteroid is no longer a hazard on the Torino asteroid scale.
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What if a giant asteroid had not wiped out the dinosaurs?Nonavian dinosaurs have been extinct for 66 million years, but what would have happened if they'd survived?
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