Medicine & TechnologyThe crater detection algorithm "automatically counts the visible impact craters" from a high-resolution image, a planetary research team from the United States, Australia, France, and Côte d'Ivoire has analyzed the formation of over 500 massive impact craters on Mars.
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has opened its "eye" and returned its first photographs from orbit just two weeks after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
A team of researchers from the California Academy of Sciences recently reported soot forming wildfires filled the sky and blocked the Sun shortly after an asteroid hit the Earth.
An asteroid double the size of Big Ben and more damaging than the world's most powerful man-made weapon will fly near Earth this Monday and will be visible through some observatories in the country.
A large asteroid as big as Washington Monument, which means it would be far more powerful than a nuclear bomb, will likely pass by Earth on December 27.