asteroids plunge into the earth

NASA launched the OSIRIS-Rex into space last September with the task of studying Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, and taking the specimen back to Earth, NJ, on October 1.

US scientists concluded that the Earth was dark for two years after being hit by an asteroid 65 million years ago, Phys.org reported yesterday.

The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) uses the Pleiades supercomputer to simulate the moment an asteroid burns when exposed to the Earth's atmosphere, Gizmodo reported on June 29.

A giant asteroid 1km in diameter is flying towards Earth and astronomers think