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Asteroid that exploded over Berlin was fastest-spinning space rock ever recorded
LiveScience· 6 days agoAn asteroid that tore through the atmosphere over Germany in January was spinning faster than any other near-Earth object ever recorded, new research suggests. The space rock ...
Scientists Discover 27,500 Asteroids in Old Telescope Images Using A.I.
Smithsonian Magazine· 2 days agoAs this cloud collapsed under its gravity, likely prompted by a nearby supernova explosion, it flattened into a swirling disk of debris around the sun. Today, NASA estimates these space rocks ...
Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks Careening Around Our Solar System
The New York Sun· 7 days agoIn an unprecedented leap in space research, scientists at the Asteroid Institute and the University...
Scientists say they’ve traced the origins of a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid to the far...
7 News Miami· 6 days agoThe space rock, known as 2016 HO3, is a rare quasi-satellite — a type of near-Earth asteroid that...
X-Men ’97 rips on 2000 era’s ‘black leather’ costumes, which Marvel liked
Polygon Games· 1 hour agoHalfway through the episode, as the X-Men prepare for a split mission to Asteroid M and Muir Island,...
AI discovers over 27,000 overlooked asteroids in old telescope images
SPACE.com· 6 days agoMore than 27,000 asteroids in our solar system had been overlooked in existing telescope images — but thanks to a new AI-powered algorithm, we now have a catalog of them.
Curious asteroid Selam, spotted by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, is a cosmic toddler
SPACE.com· 6 days agoWhen NASA's Lucy mission passed by the near-Earth asteroid Dinkinesh last November, it discovered that Dinkinesh had a companion — a little moonlet that astronomers soon named ...
The 10 biggest sci-fi bombs of all time, ranked
Digital Trends via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoIn the wildly popular anime and manga that inspired the film, the Major is a Japanese cyborg. And technically, the same is true of Johansson...
Scientists say they’ve traced the origins of a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid to the far...
AccuWeather· 6 days agoThe Giordano Bruno crater matched all of the criteria determined by impact simulations in the study. (CNN) — An unusual asteroid traveling near Earth is thought to be a chunk ...
How closely packed are Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids?
Astronomy Magazine· 4 days agoHow closely packed are Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids compared to the density of the main belt? Jupiter’s Trojans are asteroids that share the gas giant’s orbit ...