Selfies with asteroid hinting at Earth’s origins
WASHINGTON: In a hushed room of a museum in Washington, cameras and cell phones focus on a tiny piece of rock, no larger than a piece of gravel. The fragment…
NASA tracks asteroid with small chance hitting Earth
LOS ANGELES: NASA has been tracking a new asteroid named 2023 DW that has a 1/600 chance of impacting Earth in 2046. "Often when new objects are first discovered, it…
Truck-sized asteroid misses Earth
LOS ANGELES: A truck-sized asteroid that suddenly loomed out of the darkness a few days ago - with the Earth in its sights - sailed harmlessly past the globe on…
NASA readies to deflect asteroid
LAUREL: A small point of light that starts to fill out the screen, revealing a never-before-seen asteroid, before the images abruptly stop as the spacecraft is lost. That's what NASA…
Japan probe
Japan space probe to bring asteroid dust to Earth
TOKYO: Call it a special delivery: after six years in space, Japan's Hayabusa-2 probe is heading home, but only to drop off its rare asteroid samples before starting a new…
Small asteroid becomes closest ever seen passing Earth: NASA
WASHINGTON: An asteroid the size of an SUV passed 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) above Earth, the closest asteroid ever observed passing by our planet, NASA said Tuesday. If it had…