Spotlights illuminate the Saturn V booster rocket on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida carrying the Apollo 8 spacecraft and its crew of three astronauts, on December 19, 1968. AP
A rendering of the Psyche asteroid
Hills are covered with fallen and burnt trees after a meteorite hit in 1908. Getty
People look at what scientists believe to be a chunk of the Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013. AP
People standing near a six-metre hole in the ice of a frozen lake, reportedly the site of a meteor fall, outside the town of Chebakul in central Russia. AFP
A meteorite trail is seen above a residential apartment block in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk in 2013. AFP
The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (Atlas), pictured in Hawaii.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, under construction in 2019, promises to reveal more objects faster than any previous telescope. Photo: LSST
A computer-generated image shows the impact of the Dart projectile on the binary asteroid system, Didymos. ESA/AFP
Spotlights illuminate the Saturn V booster rocket on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida carrying the Apollo 8 spacecraft and its crew of three astronauts, on December 19, 1968. AP
A rendering of the Psyche asteroid
Hills are covered with fallen and burnt trees after a meteorite hit in 1908. Getty
People look at what scientists believe to be a chunk of the Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013. AP
People standing near a six-metre hole in the ice of a frozen lake, reportedly the site of a meteor fall, outside the town of Chebakul in central Russia. AFP
A meteorite trail is seen above a residential apartment block in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk in 2013. AFP
The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (Atlas), pictured in Hawaii.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, under construction in 2019, promises to reveal more objects faster than any previous telescope. Photo: LSST
A computer-generated image shows the impact of the Dart projectile on the binary asteroid system, Didymos. ESA/AFP
Spotlights illuminate the Saturn V booster rocket on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida carrying the Apollo 8 spacecraft and its crew of three astronauts, on December 19, 1968. AP