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A baseball-sized space rock punched through a Houston roof Saturday after NASA tracked a meteor blazing across Texas skies at 35,000 mph. Despite the dramatic entrance, everyone stayed safe in what experts call a rare cosmic close call. #
When a rare meteor exploded over Ohio, treasure hunters from across North America rushed to find fragments worth thousands of dollars. The six-foot meteor left behind 200 to 300 pounds of valuable space rocks scattered across northeast Ohio.
Scientists discovered all five building blocks of DNA on asteroid Ryugu, suggesting the ingredients for life might be common throughout our solar system. The findings support the possibility that life's essential components could have arrived on Earth from space.
Scientists discovered all five nucleobases that form DNA and RNA in samples from asteroid Ryugu, suggesting life's essential ingredients exist throughout our solar system. The finding offers new clues about how these crucial molecules may have arrived on early Earth.
Blue Origin is partnering with NASA to protect Earth from dangerous asteroids using ion beams and high-speed impacts. The NEO Hunter mission will scan, deflect, and divert space rocks before they can threaten our planet.
Scientists found all five DNA and RNA building blocks in samples from asteroid Ryugu, strengthening the idea that space rocks delivered the ingredients for life to early Earth. This discovery brings us closer to understanding how life began on our planet.
NASA's asteroid defense mission captured the first proof that space rocks gently toss debris at each other like cosmic snowballs, reshaping surfaces over millions of years. The discovery came from images taken seconds before the spacecraft deliberately crashed into an asteroid in 2022.
NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022 and changed its path around the sun. The success proves humanity could defend Earth from a dangerous space rock heading our way.
NASA's DART mission successfully knocked an asteroid off its path around the sun, proving we could defend Earth from a space rock threat. Amateur astronomers traveled the globe to confirm this planetary defense milestone.
Humanity just passed its first planetary defense test. NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022, and new data confirms we successfully changed how two space rocks orbit the sun.
Four years after NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, new research confirms humanity just changed a space rock's path around the Sun for the first time ever. The successful experiment means we now have a proven way to protect our planet from future asteroid threats.
For the first time in human history, we've measurably changed how a space rock orbits the Sun. NASA's 2022 asteroid impact proved we can defend Earth from cosmic threats.
When NASA deliberately smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022, scientists hoped to prove we could defend Earth from space rocks. New data reveals the impact did something even better: it shifted the entire asteroid system's path around the Sun.
Humanity just nudged an asteroid orbiting the sun, marking our first time changing a celestial object's path around our star. The breakthrough proves we can defend Earth from dangerous space rocks.
Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to confirm that asteroid 2024 YR4 will safely miss the moon in 2032, ruling out what could have been a spectacular collision. The 197-foot space rock will cruise past our lunar companion at a safe distance of 13,200 miles.
The James Webb Space Telescope just pulled off an incredible feat, tracking down a "lost" asteroid and proving it won't hit the moon in 2032 after all. Scientists thought the space rock had disappeared for three years, but international teams worked together to find it and confirm we're safe. #
A space rock the size of five football fields will zip past Earth in 2029, closer than some satellites. Europe just approved a mission to meet it first and watch what happens when a massive asteroid gets up close and personal with our planet.
A quarter century ago, humanity achieved something extraordinary: landing a spacecraft on an asteroid hurtling through space. The NEAR Shoemaker mission gave us our first close-up look at these ancient space rocks.
A Marlborough woman hunting for auroras accidentally captured a spectacular fireball meteor that lit up the South Island sky and came with an audible boom. The brilliant space rock streaked across the screen at 4:22am, delighting citizen scientists tracking New Zealand's night sky.