Webb data suggests a massive dust cloud observed 20 years ago around Beta Pictoris was caused by a cataclysmic asteroid ...
Beta Pictoris is at an age when planet formation in the terrestrial planet zone is still ongoing through giant asteroid ...
Thankfully, despite being labeled potentially hazardous, Asteroid 1994 XD poses no direct threat to life on Earth. However, if a large asteroid were to ever pose a direct threat to the Earth, NASA ...
Astronomers have captured what appears to be a snapshot of a massive collision of giant asteroids in Beta Pictoris, a ...
A solar radiation-triggered quake likely caused the asteroid Dinkinesh to lose material. Some of it became a moon that now ...
The DART spacecraft smashed into an asteroid in 2022. Researchers are studying the aftermath to learn how to protect Earth ...
An asteroid belt orbits a star in this artist's rendering ... led researchers to believe they were witnessing the aftermath ...
Lucy’s images show that Dinkinesh, located in the inner edge of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has a trough ...
This slight imbalance caused Dinkinesh to gradually rotate faster. Stress built over time and was suddenly released as a ...
How big is an asteroid? It's not like you can just run out with a tape measure and figure that out. However, it turns out, if ...
Images from the November 2023 flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft show a trough on Dinkinesh where a large ...
Potentially hazardous asteroids pose a risk to Mars missions, but they can also yield insight into the history of the Red ...