The near-Earth asteroid 1998 KY26, a future target of the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, is about 11 meters wide, significantly smaller than in earlier estimates. Researchers also determined that the asteroid ...
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Ben Rider-Stokes receives funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1 ...
Abstract: In recent years an interest has emerged in the fields of meteoritic sciences such as X-ray Computed Tomography (CT), which is a nondestructive method that produces three-dimensional (3D) ...
SETI researchers investigated how detectable Earth is to alien civilizations, finding that our most visible technosignatures are radio emissions and atmospheric pollutants. If observed from nearby ...
South African scientists on Tuesday (August 3, 2024) unveiled a fragment of what they described as a motorcycle-sized meteorite that was discovered in a town in the country's Eastern Cape province ...
Fragments of the Ribbeck meteorite are roughly 4.5 billion years old and smell a little like rotten eggs, scientists say in a new journal paper. They theorize that ...
At the beginning of this year, on 21 January, a huge fireball was visible over the German state of Brandenburg. It was the result of a small celestial body entering the Earth’s atmosphere, bursting ...
On January 21, residents of Berlin were treated to a celestial spectacle when a 3.3-foot-wide asteroid, named 2024 BX1, hurtled towards Earth, creating a fiery display visible across Europe. NASA ...