This article has been reviewed according to Science X’s editorial policies and procedures. The editors, while ensuring the validity of the content, have highlighted the following features: fact checked Reliable news agency correction Good! This image provided by NASA shows a photo taken by the Lucy spacecraft on Wednesday, November 1, 2023, of the asteroid … Read more
In July of this year, an asteroid roughly 30 to 60 meters from Earth passed a quarter of the way to the Moon. It poses no threat to our world, but if it had hit Earth, it would have produced an explosion three times larger than the Chelyabinsk impact in 2013. And we only found … Read more
NASA is in a bit of a pickle with the asteroid Bennu, which was delivered to Earth in September after an epic seven-year mission. They know there’s a nice, juicy asteroid out there, but they’re having trouble opening the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, or TAGSAM, container. Just sealed very well The problem is that TAGSAM … Read more
The team is developing a new method to sample the remaining asteroid Last month, a NASA capsule landed in the Utah desert and brought back the largest asteroid sample ever collected. On October 11, NASA gave the world its first look at a sample of the asteroid Bennu, something scientists hope will provide clues about … Read more
NASA’s Lucy rover will fly by the Dinkinsh Space Rock on Nov. 1, and an agency video preview of the encounter will give us a glimpse. Dinkinsh is located in the main asteroid belt Among Mars And Jupiter will be the first asteroid on Lucy’s record-breaking tour, which will see the spacecraft visit nine other … Read more