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"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we ...
Astronomers have constructed a 3D representation of the asteroid 2024 YR4, which could be one of the biggest objects to impact the Moon next decade. Using observations from the Gemini South Telescope ...
Dr Czechowski is convinced that the Oort Cloud, which lies deep beyond Neptune, holds billions of icy asteroids that can be ...
The Martian atmosphere is currently very thin and mostly made up of carbon dioxide. It is incapable of supporting human life.
NASA is about to begin a massive hunt for hidden asteroids, and may uncover city-destroying space rocks we’ve missed.
The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet today at a speed of around 45,991 miles per hour, according to NASA.
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The James Webb Space Telescope got a direct look at 2024 YR4, the asteroid once feared to strike Earth, and has determined ...
THERE are lots of ideas on how humans can terraform Mars, and turn the dusty, radioactive Red Planet into something habitable ...
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...