The DART mission has been flying to its target since launching last year. On Monday night, it will connect.
Tag: Asteroids
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Asteroid Samples May ‘Rewrite the Chemistry of the Solar System’
The flecks of rock were brought back to Earth by the Japanese space mission Hayabusa2 in December 2020.
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Killer Asteroids Are Hiding in Plain Sight. A New Tool Helps Spot Them.
Researchers have built an algorithm that can scan old astronomical images for unnoticed space rocks, helping to detect objects that could one day imperil Earth.
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Military Memo Adds to Possible Interstellar Meteor Mystery
The U.S. Space Command seemed to confirm a claim that a meteor from outside the solar system had entered Earth’s atmosphere, but other scientists and NASA are still not convinced.
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Shards of Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs May Have Been Found in Fossil Site
In a North Dakota deposit far from the Chicxulub crater in Mexico, remains of the rock from space were preserved within amber, a paleontologist says.