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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,...
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· 3 hours agoFor nearly a decade, a near-Earth asteroid named Kamo’oalewa has invoked speculation over how it...
Scientists Identify Near-Earth Asteroid's Birthplace » Explorersweb
Explorersweb· 9 hours agoIt’s a sound theory — many of Kamo’oalewa’s properties (its density, coloration, and orbit, among...
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 ...
Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater
SPACE.com· 1 day agoKamo'oalewa, or "469219 Kamoʻoalewa" as it is officially designated, was discovered in 2016 by the...
NASA HQ picked their best photos of the year. Here are our 13 favorites.
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoThe sample was collected from asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and...
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...
Asteroid 2024 GJ2 Is About To Make A Close Approach To Earth
IFLScience· 2 weeks agoA small asteroid being tracked by astronomers is about to make a close approach to Earth, passing within 0.00012 Astronomical Units (AU) of Earth ...
Citizen scientists spot more than 1,000 new asteroids in old Hubble Telescope photos
SPACE.com· 10 hours agoA large group of citizen scientists poring over such old Hubble...has discovered more than 1,000...