A near-Earth asteroid is turning heads for a distinct shape that makes it awfully hard to take seriously — even though it’s “potentially hazardous.” As seen in a series of radar images, the rocky ...
For decades, scientists have debated whether Mars once had a large ocean. Images from orbiters have shown valleys, channels and features that look like dried riverbeds. However, clear proof of an ...
NASA just released an image that straight up looks like it belongs in a modern art gallery. Bright reds, greens, blues, and ...
Arecibo has provided the highest-resolution images to date of near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon. After several months of downtime since Hurricane Maria struck the island of Puerto Rico, the Arecibo ...
A sequence of radar images of asteroid 1998 QE 2 was obtained on the evening of May 29, 2013, by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70 meters) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, ...
A sequence of radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 -- obtained by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif. -- reveals that it is a binary asteroid. In ...