Mars is hit by hundreds of basketball-sized space rocks every year

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Hundreds of basketball-sized space rocks slam into Mars every year, leaving impact craters and rumbling on the Red Planet, according to new research. Mission planners can use the revelations, captured in data collected by a … Read more

Mars is hit by hundreds of basketball-sized space rocks every year

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Hundreds of basketball-sized space rocks crash into Mars every year, leaving impact craters and rumbling across the Red Planet, according to new research. Mission planners can use the revelations, captured in data collected by a … Read more

‘Dinky’ asteroid has a tiny companion that’s baffling astronomers

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Astronomers were in for a surprise when NASA’s Lucy mission flew past an asteroid called Dinkinesh in November and spotted a contact binary star — two smaller space rocks touching each other — orbiting the … Read more

‘Dinky’ asteroid has a tiny companion that’s baffling astronomers

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Astronomers were in for a surprise when NASA’s Lucy mission flew past an asteroid called Dinkinesh in November and spotted a contact binary star — two smaller space rocks touching each other — orbiting the … Read more