Spinning through space: The astronomers watching the skies for asteroids
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
Asteroid probe snaps rare images of Martian moon
For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...
Remember that asteroid that isn't going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it
YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...
What If the Asteroid Belt Had Formed a Super-Earth? Scientists Reveal the Shocking Impact
Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...
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En Route to Asteroid Collision, HERA Snaps Rare Images of Martian Moon
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Snaps First Look at Upcoming Asteroid Target
The main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson is now in sight as the Discovery Program mission prepares for a flyby of the object in ...
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European probe swings past Mars, snaps stunning photos of elusive moon Deimos during asteroid mission
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
Scientists Potentially Found a Three-Body Problem in Space—but the Mystery Is Just Beginning
Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...
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Why asteroid 2024 YR4 is unlikely to hit Earth in 2032 and how scientists keep track
The orbit, um. Has *** slightly greater chance ... millions of them — that this region is known as the main asteroid belt. They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up all over ...