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Large asteroid to fly between Earth and the moon on Saturday
CBS News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn asteroid will zoom past Earth this week at such close range that standard telescopes may be able...
Surprise! Asteroid Dinkinesh's tiny moon was hiding a secret!
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 6 months agoLast week, NASA's Lucy spacecraft revealed a small moon orbiting around its first flyby target....
8 asteroid discoveries that rocked our world in 2023
Live Science via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThis year was one of the biggest ever for asteroid science, with NASA's triumphant return from asteroid Bennu, the grand reveal of organic molecules from...
Nasa DART mission - as it happened: Nasa successfully smashes spacecraft into asteroid in first...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNasa‘s asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft successfully slammed into its target on Monday, 10 months...
A mysterious rock orbiting Earth appears to be a chunk of the moon that was blasted away by a...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 6 months agoAn artist's illustration of near-Earth asteroid Kamo`oalewa floating in space between the moon and...
How many 'city killer' asteroids narrowly miss Earth each year?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThis artist concept catastrophic collisions between asteroids located in the belt between Mars and...
Could a collision cause asteroid Apophis to hit Earth? New study says no
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 2 months agoApophis will safely pass Earth at a very close distance in 2029, but what if some other space rock...
What astronomers learned from a near-Earth asteroid they never saw coming
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 6 months agoHaleakalā, Hawaii, is the site of one of the four telescopes that make up the Asteroid...
AI algorithm discovers 'potentially hazardous' asteroid 600 feet wide in a 1st for astronomy
Space via Yahoo News· 9 months agoImages from the Atlas survey showing the potentially hazardous asteroid 2022 SF289 marked by red...
Study tracking asteroids for next 1,000 years finds rock with ‘greatest chance of collision’ with...
The Independent UK via AOL· 12 months agoAstronomers have mapped the trajectories of over 2,000 potentially hazardous asteroids for the next...