The history of the young cold traps of the asteroid Ceres
Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, harbors a dark secret: extremely young ice deposits in permanently shadowed ...
NASA Says Giraffe-Sized Asteroid to Pass Incredibly Close to Earth Today
Some asteroids are also considered potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) or potentially hazardous objects (PHOs), and NASA ...
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Car-size asteroid gives Earth a super-close shave with flyby closer than some satellites
It gets so close that the line on NASA's trajectory map for the asteroid actually passes through Earth as it crosses the ...
You can watch an asteroid pass Earth this week
Skywatchers will be able to get a glimpse of the asteroid 2013 NK4 in the night sky this week if they use a telescope.
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Asteroid photobombs Hubble's observation of majestic spiral galaxy
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a majestic galaxy named UGC 12158. A slightly S-shaped white line across the ...
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Wayward Asteroid Photobombs Hubble Snapshot of Galaxy UGC 12158 (IMAGE)
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the barred spiral galaxy UGC 12158 looks like someone took a white marking pen to it. In reality it is a combination of time exposures of a foreground asteroid ...
Debris From NASA Asteroid Collision May Hit Mars
Huge chunks of an asteroid that NASA sent a spacecraft slamming into may one day collide with Mars, new research has found.
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UnDisciplined: How do you land on an asteroid?
In The Asteroid Hunter, Dante Lauretta chronicles the quest to retrieve a sample from Bennu, which is one of the large ...
Mass Of Early Main Asteroid Belt Was Shockingly Small, Says New Paper
Main asteroid belt evolved with a shockingly small mass; new computer models indicate. Yet the early asteroid belt dictated ...
NASA findings from the last year including extraordinary asteroid samples, galactic discoveries
NASA is constantly researching and discovering more about space. In 2023, the space agency made some big leaps in space ...
Watch a tripod robot test its asteroid leaping skills
Sending SpaceHopper to the nearest asteroid isn’t exactly a cost-effective or simple way to conduct a trial run. But thanks ...
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Beautiful photo of galaxy UGC 12158 gets photobombed by an asteroid
Astronomers have employed the Hubble Space Telescope to uncover a largely unseen population of smaller asteroids in our solar ...