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Curious asteroid Selam, spotted by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, is a cosmic toddler
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoNASA's Lucy spacecraft serendipitously found a small moonlet orbiting the mission's asteroid target...
Asteroid hunters say they’ve found 27,500 new prospects in search for space rocks
GeekWire via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA team of asteroid hunters that includes researchers at the University of Washington says it has...
How to Catch the Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower, Leftover Debris from Halley's Comet
Sci Fi Wire· 2 days agoThe 2021 disaster movie Asteroid (streaming now on Peacock) is just one of many cinematic stories...
Asteroid that exploded over Berlin was fastest-spinning space rock ever recorded
LiveScience· 2 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 say they’ve traced the origins of a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid to the far...
CNN.com· 3 days agoAn unusual asteroid traveling near Earth is thought to be a chunk of the moon, but exactly how it...
Curious asteroid Selam, spotted by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, is a cosmic toddler
SPACE.com· 2 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 ...
AI discovers over 27,000 overlooked asteroids in old telescope images
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA bright dot in the center is orbited on all sides by innumerous small green points among black...
AI discovers over 27,000 overlooked asteroids in old telescope images
SPACE.com· 2 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.
Scientists say they’ve traced the origins of a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid to the far...
WKBT La Crosse· 3 days agoThe space rock, known as 2016 HO3, is a rare quasi-satellite — a type of near-Earth asteroid that...
Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks Careening Around Our Solar System
The New York Sun· 3 days agoIn an unprecedented leap in space research, scientists at the Asteroid Institute and the University...