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A 300-foot asteroid could hit Earth in 2032 - scientists have already mapped the risk zone
Asteroid 2024 YR4 was estimated at up to 300 feet across, with early calculations giving it a 1-in-45 chance of striking ...
A decades-long mystery beneath the North Sea has finally been solved. Scientists have confirmed that the Silverpit Crater, ...
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NASA closes the book on OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission: 'I am immensely proud of what we did'
NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission formally ended on Sept. 30, 2026, though scientists will continue to study the pieces of space rock it returned for decades.
In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft violently smashed into a tiny asteroid as a test of planetary defense. Now, a new probe ...
Asteroid Bennu has puzzled scientists for years. Its surface is covered with massive boulders, a landscape that should, in ...
The speed of an asteroid's spin can tell astronomers a surprising amount about what it is made of. However, existing ...
Astronomers using fresh data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have uncovered an asteroid that defies usual planetary ...
The trick is to watch the light. Most asteroids are lumpy and irregular, so the amount of sunlight they reflect changes as ...
As Earth wanders through space, there are many dangers lurking in the form of asteroids. Scientists are already keeping a ...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently approved naming an asteroid after musician and actor 'Weird' Al Yankovic.
Four years after a NASA probe struck the asteroid moon Dimorphos in the first planetary defense crash test, Europe’s Hera ...
REx asteroid-sampling mission formally ended on Sept. 30, 2026, though scientists will continue to study the pieces of space ...
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