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Novel calculations peg age of 'baby' asteroid
Phys.org· 1 day agoThe new method complements that work and has some advantages: It doesn't require an expensive spacecraft to capture close-up images, could be more accurate in cases where asteroid< ...
How Scientists Are Preparing for Apophis's Unnervingly Close Brush With Earth
Gizmodo· 6 days agoIn about five years’ time, a potentially hazardous asteroid will swing by Earth at an eerily close...
Asteroid that broke up over Berlin was fastest-spinning one ever seen
New Scientist· 6 days agoAn asteroid that hit Earth’s atmosphere earlier this year was spinning once every 2.6 seconds,...
Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks
New York Times· 1 day 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 ...
This Day, That Year: What Happened on April 29
Gadgets 360· 5 days agoOn this day in 2020, Earth witnessed a significant celestial event as the mile-wide asteroid known as 1998 OR2 made its close approach, passing within...
Earth's Quasi-Moon Kamo'oalewa Might be Literal Offspring from the Moon
Sci Fi Wire· 2 days agoA quick glance at the Moon’s face reveals a long history of violent attacks going back billions of...
Rogue Planets, Abundant Asteroids: Space Is More Crowded Than We Thought
Forbes· 2 days agoThe more we look into space with increasingly sensitive tools like NASA’s James Webb Telescope...
NASA HQ picked their best photos of the year. Here are our 13 favorites.
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe sample was collected from the carbon rich near Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s...
NASA's latest speed test logs its laser-based comms system at 25 Mbps—a connection speed usually...
PC Gamer via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe Pysche craft is around 226 million kilometres (140 million miles) away from Earth. It's...
Scientists Plan for Apophis’s Unnervingly Close Brush With Earth
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 4 days agoIn our top stories this week, reporter Passant Rabie explores potential projects to visit and study ...
