The materials essential for life on Earth including organic matter and water have been discovered on the surface of an asteroid for the first time, study shows. Planetary scientists from Royal Holloway University of London examined a single grain of dust returned to Earth from asteroid Itokawa by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as part … Read more
The materials essential for life on Earth including organic matter and water have been discovered on the surface of an asteroid for the first time, study shows. Planetary scientists from Royal Holloway University of London examined a single grain of dust returned to Earth from asteroid Itokawa by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as part … Read more
Asteroid dust found beneath an impact crater confirms a leading theory that it was a space rock that killed the dinosaurs and 75% of life on Earth 66 million years ago. Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin studied 900 metres of rock core samples from below the seafloor under the Chicxulub crater in … Read more
Huge ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid twice the size of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, will hurtle past Earth next month, NASA reveals The asteroid – 231937 (2001 FO32) – was discovered by astronomers in 2001 It will be about 1.2 million miles from the Earth at its closest approach in March This is … Read more
Huge ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid twice the size of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, will skim past Earth next month, NASA reveals The asteroid – 231937 (2001 FO32) – was first discovered by astronomers in 2001 It will be about 1.2 million miles from the Earth at its closest approach in March This … Read more
Did DINOSAURS beat man to the MOON? Bones from giant reptiles were flung into space when the extinction-event asteroid smashed into the Earth 66 million years ago, scientists claim An excerpt from ‘The End of the World’ by Peter Brannen was shared to Twitter It describes the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million … Read more
Did DINOSAURS beat man to the MOON? Bones from giant reptiles were flung into space when the extinction-event asteroid smashed into the Earth 66 million years ago, scientists claim An excerpt from ‘The End of the World’ by Peter Brannen was shared to Twitter It describes the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million … Read more
Crocodiles survived the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs thanks to their ‘versatile’ and ‘efficient’ body shape, that allowed them to cope with the enormous environmental changes triggered by the impact, according to new research. Crocodiles can thrive in or out of water and live in complete darkness. They are also very robust, meaning … Read more
A small capsule containing asteroid soil samples that was dropped from 136,700 miles in space by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft landed as planned in the Australian Outback on Sunday, December 6. A member of JAXA retrieves a capsule dropped by Hayabusa2 in Woomera, southern Australia WHAT IS THE HAYABUSA2 MISSION? Launched on December 3, 2014, the … Read more
An asteroid bigger than the Statue of Liberty will fly past Earth at 8:20pm GMT on Christmas Day, according to data from NASA’s Center for Near Earth Studies. The asteroid, called 2014 SD224, will come within 0.02019 astronomical units, or nearly 1.9 million miles, from the Earth’s surface. 2014 SD224 has a diameter anywhere between 302 … Read more