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Hera asteroid mission's side-trip to Mars
Phys.org· 1 day agoESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its target Didymos binary ...
Apophis Probably Isn't Coming to Earth in 2029, But What If It Gets Nudged by Another Asteroid?
Sci Fi Wire· 6 days agoDodge Peterson (Steve Carell) works for an insurance company, he has a wife and a life, and all of...
Computer model helps support theory of asteroid Kamo'oalewa as ejecta from the moon
Phys.org· 4 days agoA small international team of planetary scientists has found evidence supporting the theory that the near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa ...
An extra moon may be orbiting Earth — and scientists think they know exactly where it came from
LiveScience· 3 days agoNow, scientists think they know exactly which lunar crater it came from. A new study, published April 19 in the journal Nature Astronomy, finds that the near-Earth ...
NASA HQ picked their best photos of the year. Here are our 13 favorites.
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe sample was collected from the carbon rich near Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s...
During the solar system's chaotic era, Jupiter may have helped form Earth's moon
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoEL chondrite meteorites come from the Athor family of asteroids, the progenitor of which was dumped...
Was asteroid Kamo’oalewa blasted from this moon crater?
EarthSky· 1 day agoMeet the lunar crater Giordano Bruno. It’s 13 miles (21 km) wide and located on the moon’s far side....
Citizen scientists spot more than 1,000 new asteroids in old Hubble Telescope photos
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoCitizen scientists poring over old Hubble Telescope photos discovered a thousand previously unknown ...
Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoScientists turned into cosmic crime scene investigators to reconstruct the impact that sent Earth's...
What Caused Our First Interstellar Visitor's Non-Gravitational Acceleration?
IFLScience· 1 day agoIn 2017, astronomers at the Pan-STARRS1 observatory looking for near-Earth asteroids spotted an object as it hurtled past our Sun at ...