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Surprise! Asteroid 'Dinky' is actually a double space rock, NASA's Lucy probe reveals (photo)
Space via Yahoo News· 8 months agoBlack and white photo of one large asteroid and one small asteroid, against the blackness of space....
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...
Strange moon of asteroid Dinkinesh is weirder than thought after NASA probe finds 'contact binary'...
Space via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThree grey space rocks in the blackness of space. the largest is alone on the left; the smaller two...
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...
How long can an asteroid 'survive'?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 11 months agoAsteroid exploding in space into lots of little pieces. In October 2020, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft approached the asteroid Bennu. The probe, which had...
NASA’s Lucy mission went to visit an asteroid and got more than it bargained for
CNN via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating...
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...
Watch the skies! Five asteroids are passing near Earth this week. Here's how to track them
Florida Today via Yahoo Finance· 10 months agoIf you love knowing what's "out there," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory maintains an asteroid watch...
Where did Earth's water come from? This ancient asteroid family may help us find out
Space via Yahoo News· 1 month agoAn explosion of rocks in space scatters debris throughout. The flashpoint can be seen central left,...
Asteroid 2024 BX1 fragments confirmed to be rare meteorites as old as the solar system itself
Space via Yahoo News· 5 months agoWhen asteroid 2024 BX1 exploded over Earth it littered the planet with rare meteorites that are...