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Vera Rubin Observatory has already found thousands of new asteroids

Amid the millions of distant stars and galaxies captured in the first images released from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory…

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An ‘invisible threat’: Swarm of hidden ‘city killer’ asteroids around Venus could one day collide with Earth, simulations show

A hidden swarm of “city killer” space rocks, known as co-orbital asteroids, is likely hiding around Venus and could pose…

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US Representatives worry Trump’s NASA budget plan will make it harder to track dangerous asteroids

On Thursday (May 15), the U.S. House Committee on Space, Science and Technology convened with scientists to discuss a rather…

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Meteorites and asteroids tracked back to their place of origin in the solar system

Ten years ago, astronomers from various institutions, including NASA and SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence), set out to map the…

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Hubble Telescope discovers a new ‘3-body problem’ puzzle among Kuiper Belt asteroids (video)

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a system of asteroids in the distant Kuiper Belt may be triplets, not…

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 149 — SpaceX, Moon Missions, and Killer Asteroids?

SpaceX, Moon Missions, and Killer Asteroids? – 2024 YR4, ISS Deorbiting, and NASA Budget Cuts – YouTube Watch On On…

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‘Just the tip of the iceberg’: Why risky asteroids like 2024 YR4 will pester Earth for decades to come

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has gone from a potential ‘city-killer’ to an almost certain near-misser this week as the odds that…

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‘City Killer’ Asteroid’s Earth Impact Risk Rises to Highest Ever Recorded

February 18, 2025 5 min read ‘City Killer’ Asteroid’s Earth Impact Risk Rises and Falls Again Asteroid 2024 YR4’s risk…

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Scientists say 2 asteroids may actually be fragments of destroyed planets from our early solar system

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost “planetary embryos” from the early solar system. These embryos, somewhere…

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