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Asteroid that broke up over Berlin was fastest-spinning one ever seen
New Scientist· 1 day agoAn asteroid that hit Earth’s atmosphere earlier this year was spinning once every 2.6 seconds,...
An asteroid will make a close flyby of Earth, and scientists are excited
Quartz· 2 days agoIn about five years’ time, a potentially hazardous asteroid will swing by Earth at an eerily close...
Asteroid hunt by Hubble telescope using AI
EarthSky· 2 days agoOver 1,000 new small asteroids have been found in Hubble Space Telescope images. Researchers, along with over 11,000 volunteer citizen scientists, found...
Citizen scientists spot more than 1,000 new asteroids in old Hubble Telescope photos
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoCitizen scientists poring over old Hubble Telescope photos discovered a thousand previously unknown ...
Scientists Plan for Apophis’s Unnervingly Close Brush With Earth
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoIn our top stories this week, reporter Passant Rabie explores potential projects to visit and study ...
Minerals are in short supply on Earth. This startup wants to mine asteroids
CNN via AOL· 4 days agoWith minerals in short supply on Earth, private companies such as California-based AstroForge and...
Earth’s New ‘Second Moon’ Is As Big As The Statue Of Liberty—And Scientists Just Found Its Origin
Forbes· 11 hours agoEarth’s “second moon”—as asteroid called Kamo’oalewa—appears to have come from the moon itself....
Laser on NASA's Psyche asteroid probe beams data from 140 million miles away
SPACE.com· 23 hours agoLate last year, NASA scientists pressed start on a highly anticipated space mission. Basically, they launched a spacecraft toward an asteroid that could very well be made ...
Hubble Has Accidentally Discovered Over a Thousand Asteroids
Universe Today· 4 days agoThanks to an international team of citizen scientists, with the help of astronomers from the...
NASA HQ picked their best photos of the year. Here are our 13 favorites.
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe spacecraft also carries the agency's Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration,...