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How many potentially dangerous asteroids narrowly miss Earth each year?
Space via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThis artist concept catastrophic collisions between asteroids located in the belt between Mars and...
Sky Shorts: NASA's DART mission to test asteroid deflector impactor
The Repository via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBack on July 26, astronomers were surprised to discover an asteroid wider than 2 football fields...
Sky Shorts: Asteroid sample OSIRIS-Rex returning to Earth
The Repository via Yahoo News· 10 months agoPreparations are underway for the return of NASA’s first asteroid sample on Sept. 24. The...
AI algorithm discovers 'potentially hazardous' asteroid 600 feet wide in a 1st for astronomy
Space via Yahoo News· 10 months agoImages from the Atlas survey showing the potentially hazardous asteroid 2022 SF289 marked by red...
Primordial asteroids are like giant space pillows and could be harder to destroy than previously...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe rubble pile asteroid as imaged by the Hayabusa 1 probe in 2005. Dust collected from the surface...
What's it like to have an asteroid named after you? Our night sky columnist Joe Rao explains
Space via Yahoo News· 11 months agoSpace.com's night sky columnist Joe Rao explains what it was like to have asteroid 200009 Joerao...
Fascinating recent discoveries about comets and meteors
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAs space objects go, comets and meteors are not very big. While a planet like Earth is about 8,000...
After weather delay, NASA Psyche launches to explore a $10 trillion asteroid
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAfter a delay due to active weather near Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, NASA's Psyche mission has...
How Earth's new Rubin Observatory will usher in the next era of asteroid space missions
Space via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe Vera C. Rubin Observatory won't ever leave Earth, but its big picture, highly detailed view of...
Mars might have an asteroid problem
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 1 month agoAstronomers have been surveying the sky for years to catalog and track so-called Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), asteroids and comets that come near to or...