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'Lucy’s baby’ asteroid is only about 2 to 3 million years old
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 1 day agoA pair of stereoscopic images of the asteroid Dinkinesh and Selam created with data collected by the...
AI Finds Nearly 30,000 Unknown Asteroids in Existing Telescope Photos
PetaPixel· 1 day agoArtificial intelligence is used for a lot more generating fake images, scientists also use it to...
Scientists say they’ve traced the origins of a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid to the far...
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 days agoRare near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa may have been created several million years ago when something...
Earth’s quasi-moon Asteroid Kamo'oalewa likely blasted out of this giant moon crater
FOX 10 Phoenix· 1 day agoLess than a decade after discovering a near-Earth asteroid with lunar origins, an international...
Incredibly clear picture taken of asteroid in space has people creeped out for same reason
UNILAD· 1 day agoA fascinating image of an asteroid has been shared on social media and people are pretty blown away....
How closely packed are Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids?
Astronomy Magazine· 9 hours agoHow closely packed are Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids compared to the density of the main belt? Jupiter’s Trojans are asteroids that share the gas giant’s orbit ...
Asteroid that exploded over Berlin was fastest-spinning space rock ever recorded
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 days agoScientists have calculated the rotational speed of asteroid 2024 BX1, which exploded over Berlin...
Asteroid Ryugu holds secrets of our solar system's past, present and future
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoSamples of asteroid Ryugu, collected by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, have revealed the impact solar...
Asteroid hunters say they’ve found 27,500 new prospects in search for space rocks
GeekWire via Yahoo News· 3 days agoA team of asteroid hunters that includes researchers at the University of Washington says it has...
Curious asteroid Selam, spotted by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, is a cosmic toddler
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoNASA's Lucy spacecraft serendipitously found a small moonlet orbiting the mission's asteroid target...