The next stop for NASA's asteroid-hopping spacecraft Lucy is a space rock named Donaldjohanson, an object researchers recently learned is about 150 million years old. Lucy will fly past the three ...

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The NEO Surveyor, set to launch in 2027, is the first spacecraft ...

larger asteroid impacts during this period may have triggered global changes in climate and ocean chemistry, perhaps even playing a role in one of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions. Around 600 million ...

"We now have the first outlines of a geologic map of the asteroid belt." Ten years ago ... fewer and fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the mass media in our country.

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

"We now have the first outlines of a geologic map of the asteroid belt." Ten years ago, Jenniskens teamed up with astronomer Hadrien Devillepoix of Curtin University and colleagues in Australia to ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Scientists have created a new map of "mega ... by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, revealing further the events that led to the devastating mass extinction event.