A “potentially hazardous” pyramid-size asteroid is about to zoom past Earth at around 48,000 mph (77,300 km/h) this week as…
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Mars appears light blue in this near-infrared image taken by the Hera spacecraft. Its moon Deimos is the dark mark…
Read More »A mosaic image of asteroid Bennu composed of images collected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona The asteroid Bennu…
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Read More »A NASA planetary defense mission will ride to space atop a SpaceX rocket two and a half years from now.…
Read More »Measles Outbreaks, Asteroid Risks and Fish Friends In this week’s news roundup, we cover activity from the black hole at…
Read More »One fateful day 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs — which had inhabited Earth for about 165 million years —…
Read More »Astronomers have raced to observe asteroid 2024 YR4 NASA/Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope/New Mexico Institute of Technology/Ryan The world’s space agencies…
Read More »The probability that a major asteroid, big enough to wipe out an entire city, will hit Earth in 2032 has…
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