You Searched For "difference between meteoroid and asteroid" and got 20 results
Sort By:
How to watch the 'spooky' asteroid flying unusually close to Earth on Halloween
Here, we used thee free app Stellarium to figure out where it would be in New York City at exactly …
Jessica Orwig
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old who just defeated a powerful House Democrat, has an asteroid named after her - here's why
Jenifer Evans, an electrical engineer at MIT Lincoln Lab, was one of the lead scientists on LINEAR …
Dave Mosher
A huge pyramid-like mountain exists in the asteroid belt and NASA can't explain it
Expect to hear about other surprises on Ceres in the coming years: The Dawn spacecraft is in such a…
Sarah Kramer,Dave Mosher
Facebook's effort to stop suicides reveals a worrisome gap between Silicon Valley tech companies and healthcare experts
Staff at the company had been thinking about the issue of suicide since 2009, when a cluster of the…
Erin Brodwin
Astronomers Spot A Never-Before-Seen Comet-Like Thing In The Sky
Comets, on the hand, are typically made of ice, dust, and rock. When comets gets close to the sun, …
Dina Spector
Stunning New Details From The Largest Asteroid Impact In A Century
Thanks to cell phones, dashboard video cameras, and other recording devices, researchers have been …
Dina Spector
A 'Nation-Busting' Asteroid Could Hit Earth In 2036
Comets are different from asteroids for a number of reasons. The biggest difference is that asteroi…
Dina Spector
WATCH: Massive comet fragment blazes up in beautiful blue flames over Portugal and Spain
In Portugal, a fragment of an unidentified comet streaked through the atmosphere at a blistering 45…
Confused about the potential Qualcomm-Intel deal? Here's why it matters even if it doesn't happen.
Doubts about the Qualcomm-Intel deal stem from uncertainty over how Intel's manufacturing fits into…
Dan DeFrancesco
Here's what fireballs are and how to best spot them at the Perseid meteor shower's peak
Explore the celestial spectacle of fireballs during the Perseid meteor shower, set to peak this wee…
Hannah Getahun,Sebastian Cahi…
Jason Schwartzman will think about working on 'Megalopolis' with Francis Ford Coppola 'til the day I die'
Jason Schwartzman stars in "Between the Temples," and will soon appear in Francis Ford Coppola's "M…
Palmer Haasch
A mysterious rock orbiting Earth appears to be a chunk of the moon that was blasted away by a meteorite
The discovery could rewrite what we know about potentially dangerous space rocks and help better pr…
Marianne Guenot
How to make money from medical research and donations
You can make good money from donating plasma or sperm on a regular basis. Other donations and scien…
Hilary Brueck
The mystery of how the moon formed is still puzzling scientists. The secret could lie deep within our planet.
Scientists have several theories for how the moon first formed. The leading hypothesis involves a m…
Marianne Guenot
'Suzume' director Makoto Shinkai is 'a little exhausted' by the constant comparisons to Studio Ghibli legend Hayao Miyazaki
Makoto Shinkai is best known for his 2016 smash hit "Your Name," and his other most recent films "W…
Palmer Haasch
The world's top alien hunters explain why a Harvard physicist's discovery of 'alien' tech is likely a false alarm
Scientists from top alien-hunting organizations SETI and METI don't think Harvard physicist, Avi Lo…
Adam Barnes
Vivo X100 Pro Review - Peak Camera Performance
It’s been 8 months since we got our hands on the Vivo X90 series smartphone, and the brand has alre…
A Harvard professor is risking his reputation to search for aliens. Tech tycoons are bankrolling his quest.
Avi Loeb thinks the public has a right to know the truth about UFOs. He hopes his controversial ide…
Marianne Guenot
A new climate solution involves shooting moon dust into space to create a 'solar shield' around Earth, but scientists say it's a risky last resort
A moon-dust shield is the latest in a series of risky, last-resort geoengineering proposals to shie…
Matthew Loh
Harvey Weinstein's defense is 'stuck in the 1950s' with brash courtroom antics like suggesting Gov. Newsom's wife could be a 'bimbo' and goading an accuser with a suit jacket, expert says
"He's not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Do you think those beautiful women had sex with him because …