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Did Asteroid Collisions, Not Distant Stars, Forge Most Earth Meteorites?

Unraveling the Cosmic Puzzle: Three Asteroid Families Dominate Earth's Meteorite Shower For millennia, meteorites – fragments of asteroids and other celestial bodies that survive their...

Mission Control: A Window into History’s Most Tense Moments

How to (Actually) Kill an Asteroid: A Deep Dive into NASA's DART Mission and the Future of Planetary Defense Sixty-six million years ago, a catastrophic...

Giant Space Rock, Stadium-Sized? Asteroid’s Odd Shape Baffles Scientists

The Adorable Space Peanut: A Closer Look at Asteroid 2024 ON The cosmos often surprises us with its beauty and strangeness. Recent close-up images of...

Will This Spacecraft Tag Along for Apophis’s Earth Flyby?

A Rendezvous with Destiny: ESA's Ramses Mission to Asteroid Apophis In the vast expanse of our solar system, a celestial drama is unfolding. A potentially...