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What are potentially hazardous asteroids?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPotentially hazardous asteroids, or potentially hazardous objects, are large space rocks that orbit closely to Earth and could cause widespread damage to...
Asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft fires up ion thrusters, starts cruising through space
Space via Yahoo News· 1 month agoA spacecraft with silver conical antenna dome and winged solar panels floats in space. NASA's...
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...
Spot dwarf planet Ceres during the new moon tonight
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCeres will be at opposition on March 21, 2023, though you'll still need a telescope to see the dwarf planet. As the moon reaches its new phase on Tuesday...
Wow. Weird 'rock comet' 3200 Phaethon is way stranger than we thought!
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNew observations of asteroid 3200 Phaethon have upended years of assumptions about this already...
'Dinky' asteroid imaged by NASA has ultra-rare double moon, study confirms
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoResearchers have proposed a model for how a double moon named Selam formed around the tiny asteroid...
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...
12 James Webb Space Telescope findings that changed our understanding of the universe in 2023
Space via Yahoo News· 6 months agoAn artist's impression of the James Webb Space Telescope. It's golden mirror is seen atop its...
Scientists Say ‘Rubble Pile’ Asteroids Are Surprisingly Hard to Kill
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRubble pile asteroids are more common and durable than previously thought, according to new...
Planetary geoscientist: How two 'star-like points of light' became geological worlds
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHarry "Hap" McSween presented the Richard D. Smyser Community Lecture on asteroids in Oak Ridge....