On the upcoming late Thursday night or Friday morning, depending on your location, there is a notable astronomical event that will occur. The asteroid 2023 EY, which was recently discovered, is set to pass by our planet. Its trajectory will … Read More
An asteroid the size of a truck is set to pass close to Earth on Thursday, one of the closest encounters ever recorded, according to NASA. The asteroid, named 2023 BU and recently discovered by an amateur astronomer, is scheduled … Read More
A “Planet killer” asteroid that has been hiding in the sun’s glare has finally been observed, and the massive space rock could smash into Earth one day. The 0.9-mile-wide (1.5-kilometer-wide) “potentially hazardous” asteroid 2022 AP7 is one of several large space … Read More
Data obtained by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team over the last two weeks show that the spacecraft’s kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit. This is the first time humanity has purposely … Read More
Smacking an asteroid with a bomb or a smaller asteroid should shatter it into manageable pieces, right? Wrong. You’ve probably heard by now that the movie Armageddon got everything wrong — it’s simply not possible to blow up an asteroid … Read More
A massive explosion flattened entire forests in a remote region of Eastern Siberia along the Tunguska River in the early morning of June 30, 1908. Surprisingly, the explosion left no crater, posing a mystery that has puzzled scientists ever since: … Read More