A second asteroid may have struck Earth when the dinosaurs died out
17 August 2022
A possible impact crater under the sea off West Africa might have been made by a smaller piece that broke off the asteroid that wiped out most dinosaurs
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The hunt for hidden impact craters that could reveal Earth’s deep past
2 August 2022
Geologist Ludovic Ferrière travels the world in search of undiscovered impact craters left behind by asteroids and comets striking Earth. He tells us how he finds them
Asteroid Bennu may have got its spinning-top shape from landslides
28 June 2022
Asteroids that are shaped like spinning tops, such as Bennu and Ryugu, may have been slowed down and shaped by a series of huge landslides
Sample of asteroid Ryugu brought to Earth is a strange dark colour
20 December 2021
Last year, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid explorer returned samples from the asteroid Ryugu, and now the first analysis of the rock shows it has a primitive composition and a curiously dark colour
NASA’s DART mission will try to deflect an asteroid by flying into it
23 November 2021
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is scheduled to launch on 24 November and will smash into the asteroid Dimorphos
Astronomers have found a second trojan asteroid sharing Earth’s orbit
22 November 2021
An Earth trojan is an asteroid that shares our planet’s orbit around the sun, moving just ahead of or behind our planet – and astronomers have now discovered that we have two
A fragment of our moon may be orbiting the sun with Earth
11 November 2021
Kamo‘oalewa, an object that orbits the sun along with Earth, is unexpectedly red, leading researchers to suspect it came from the moon
NASA’s Lucy mission is launching to study asteroids near Jupiter
14 October 2021
A NASA spacecraft called Lucy is about to blast off to study the Trojan asteroids near Jupiter, which are pristine relics from the early solar system
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has found two odd pairs of asteroids
7 October 2021
The New Horizons spacecraft has found two pairs of unusually close asteroids in a region of the solar system called the Kuiper belt
UAE will send spacecraft to visit Venus and land on an asteroid
6 October 2021
The United Arab Emirates is planning to land on an asteroid in 2033, after a quick visit to Venus
