NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.
YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...
YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...
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Space.com on MSNTiny Mars moon Deimos gets a rare close-up, thanks to Europe's Hera asteroid probe (photos)The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...
Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...
A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...
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Astronomy on MSNAstronomers have spotted the most distant comet ever discoveredThis is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...
The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...
Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...
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