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Asteroid that exploded over Berlin was fastest-spinning space rock ever recorded
LiveScience· 2 days agoAn asteroid that tore through the atmosphere over Germany in January was spinning faster than any other near-Earth object ever recorded, new research suggests. The space rock ...
Scientists determine near-Earth asteroid was blasted from moon, leaving crater
AOL· 2 days agoScientists at the University of Arizona have discovered that asteroid 2016 HO3 was likely blasted...
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 ...
Set Your Alarm Now to Watch This Weekend's Dazzling Meteor Shower
CNET· 1 day agoThe Eta Aquarid meteor shower occurs annually between April 15 and May 27, peaking in early May....
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...
Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks
New York Times· 5 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 ...
Scientists say they’ve traced the origins of a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid to the far...
7 News Miami· 3 days agoThe space rock, known as 2016 HO3, is a rare quasi-satellite — a type of near-Earth asteroid that...
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...
AI discovers over 27,000 overlooked asteroids in old telescope images
SPACE.com· 3 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.