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Asteroid hunters say they’ve found 27,500 new prospects in search for space rocks
Asteroid hunters say they've identified 27,500 new, high-confidence asteroid discovery candidates, just by sifting through data.
Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks
With 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.
Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks Careening Around Our Solar System
Detection of the rocks is crucial to the future of 'planetary defense' — a global effort to prevent potential asteroid impacts on earth.
Asteroid hunters spot 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids — more than were discovered by all of the world’s telescopes last year
Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tech that could potentially stave off armageddon in the future. Instead of stargazing with a traditional telescope,
Asteroid-hunting citizen scientists train AI that traces 1,000 new space rocks
An artificial intelligence algorithm trained by thousands of citizen scientists discovered more than 1,000 never-before-seen space rocks in our solar system. The artificial intelligence (AI) was trained on archival images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope,
Asteroid hunters spot 27,500 'hidden' space rocks, some close to Earth
NASA astronaut leading the work said. 'This is key to protecting the Earth from being hit by asteroids: knowing where all these are'
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Curious asteroid Selam, spotted by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, is a cosmic toddler
Selam may actually be younger than Lucy's namesake, the 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia in the 1970s.
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Asteroid Ryugu holds secrets of our solar system's past, present and future
Samples of asteroid Ryugu, collected by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, have revealed the impact solar winds and tiny space rocks ...
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Asteroid that exploded over Berlin was fastest-spinning space rock ever recorded
Scientists have calculated the rotational speed of asteroid 2024 BX1, which exploded over Berlin earlier this year, by ...
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This spacecraft is headed to NASA's asteroid-crash aftermath — but first, it'll stop by Mars
After Hera speeds past Mars, it's onward to Didymos and its now -misshapen companion Dimorphos (thanks to the collision), ...
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Asteroid Ryugu holds clues about bombardment in the early solar system
A recent study examined the effects of space weathering on Ryugu, an asteroid explored by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft.
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Animation Shows Project Lyra's Ridiculous Maneuver To Catch Interstellar Asteroid
Catching up with 'Oumuamua would be awesome for a whole host of reasons. When it passed through the Solar System, for example ...
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Longmont-area events for Thursday, May 2: ‘Asteroid City’ film screening at Longmont Museum
“Asteroid City” film screening: 7 p.m. Thursday, Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. “Asteroid City” takes place ...
Novel calculations peg age of 'baby' asteroid
An asteroid dubbed "Lucy's baby" after a NASA spacecraft discovered it is orbiting another asteroid last November is,, in ...