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An asteroid will make a close flyby of Earth, and scientists are excited
Quartz· 5 hours 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· 11 hours agoOver 1,000 new small asteroids have been found in Hubble Space Telescope images. Researchers, along with over 11,000 volunteer citizen scientists, found...
Hera asteroid mission's side-trip to Mars
Phys.org· 5 hours agoESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its target Didymos binary ...
Scientists have predicted the exact date asteroid is in danger of hitting Earth with force of 22...
UNILAD· 13 hours agoYou may want to mark your calendars as scientists have predicted an exact date you should keep in...
Birthplace of red asteroid Kamo‘oalewa pinned to specific moon crater
New Scientist· 16 hours agoThe redness of asteroid 469219 Kamo‘oalewa marks it out as probably originating on the moon, and now...
Was asteroid Kamo’oalewa blasted from this moon crater?
EarthSky· 11 hours agoMeet the lunar crater Giordano Bruno. It’s 13 miles (21 km) wide and located on the moon’s far side....
Minerals are in short supply on Earth. This startup wants to mine asteroids
CNN via AOL· 3 days agoWith minerals in short supply on Earth, private companies such as California-based AstroForge and...
Citizen scientists spot more than 1,000 new asteroids in old Hubble Telescope photos
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoCitizen scientists poring over old Hubble Telescope photos discovered a thousand previously unknown ...
Scientists Identify Near-Earth Asteroid’s Birthplace
ExplorersWeb via Yahoo News· 1 day agoWhen scientists discovered the asteroid Kamo’oalewa in 2016, they almost immediately suspected it might have once been a part of the Moon. It’s a sound...
There's a new theory about how one of earth's 'quasi-moons' war born
Quartz· 1 day agoFor nearly a decade, a near-Earth asteroid named Kamo’oalewa has invoked speculation over how it...
