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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...
'Potentially hazardous' asteroid makes closest pass to Earth in more than century
United Press International via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAn illustration shows the Psyche asteroid, which measures 173 miles across and which is the target...
Japan's mission to bizarre asteroid Phaethon delayed to 2025
Space via Yahoo News· 7 months agoArtist's illustration of Japan's DESTINY+ asteroid probe in space, with earth in the background. A...
How many 'city killer' asteroids narrowly miss Earth each year?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThis artist concept catastrophic collisions between asteroids located in the belt between Mars and...
What astronomers learned from a near-Earth asteroid they never saw coming
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 7 months agoHaleakalā, Hawaii, is the site of one of the four telescopes that make up the Asteroid...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule returns to Earth with a sample from the 'potentially hazardous' asteroid...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA capsule containing 2 ounces of rocky material from the "potentially hazardous" asteroid Bennu has...
This fall NASA is all about asteroids. What we could learn from these three missions
LA Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThis fall, NASA is all about asteroids. OSIRIS-REx's brought samples from Bennu; Psyche will visit a...