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Citizen scientists spot more than 1,000 new asteroids in old Hubble Telescope photos
Space via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoCitizen scientists poring over old Hubble Telescope photos discovered a thousand previously unknown ...
NASA HQ picked their best photos of the year. Here are our 13 favorites.
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 1 hour ago2023 was a stellar year for NASA images. On September 24, 2023, a capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx...
NASA says giraffe-sized asteroid to pass incredibly close to Earth today
Newsweek· 2 weeks agoThe asteroid, named 2024 GJ2, will zip past our planet at a distance of 0.00012 astronomical units,...
There's a new theory about how one of earth's 'quasi-moons' war born
Quartz· 1 hour agoA new study of the oddball may have pinpointed where it came from: a young impact crater on the far...
2,000-foot-wide 'potentially hazardous' asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth — and...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 week agoThe 2,000-foot-wide asteroid 2013 NK4 just made its closest approach to Earth in recorded history,...
Scientists Identify Near-Earth Asteroid’s Birthplace
ExplorersWeb via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoWhen scientists discovered the asteroid Kamo’oalewa in 2016, they almost immediately suspected it might have once been a part of the ...
Car-size asteroid gives Earth a super-close shave with flyby closer than some satellites
SPACE.com· 2 weeks agoAn asteroid discovered Tuesday (April 9) will make an extremely close, but harmless, pass by planet Earth today (April 11). Asteroid ...
Large asteroid to pass closer to Earth than many satellites in 2029
Cosmos· 1 week agoIn 2029 the asteroid once considered the most probable to strike the Earth will fly uncomfortably...
Earth has a ‘seconds Moon’ as scientists identify lunar crater where it once lay
The US Sun· 1 day agoScientists discovered a giant crater on the moon and believe this is where asteroid Kamo’oalewa...
Minerals are in short supply on Earth. This startup wants to mine asteroids
CNN via AOL· 2 days agoWith minerals in short supply on Earth, private companies such as California-based AstroForgeand...