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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 ...
Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks
New York Times· 4 days agoWith the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects. A couple of years ago ...
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...
7 News Miami· 2 days agoThe space rock, known as 2016 HO3, is a rare quasi-satellite — a type of near-Earth asteroid that...
Pieces of distant asteroid show ‘bombardment’ that happens to objects in space
The Independent via Yahoo News· 5 days agoPieces of a distant asteroid show the “bombardment” that objects in space undergo, according to the...
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 hunters spot 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids — more than were discovered by all of...
New York Post· 4 days agoWe may no longer have to fear unseen Empire State Building-sized space rocks passing within our...
Micrometeoroid Bombardment and Magnetic Fields: Decoding the Effects of Interplanetary Space on ...
SciTechDaily· 6 days agoSamples reveal evidence of changes experienced by the surface ofasteroid Ryugu, some probably due to...
This spacecraft is headed to NASA's asteroid-crash aftermath — but first, it'll stop by Mars
SPACE.com· 4 days agoScheduled to launch in October, Hera's main mission is to fly to the binary asteroid system called...
Rogue Planets, Abundant Asteroids: Space Is More Crowded Than We Thought
Forbes· 5 days agoToday the Asteroid Institute announced it has used advanced computational methods to discover 27,500...