A strange asteroid-comet could be key to understanding the birth of the solar system
A strange asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune could reveal key details about the birth of our solar ...
2025 in SPACEFLIGHT: The incredible missions set to take off next year, revealed - from China's daring asteroid retrieval to the first private trip to Venus
There's no doubt 2024 saw some incredible space feats - including the first private spacewalk - but 2025 could be an even ...
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How AI Can Discover New Asteroids Circling the Earth
Asteroid-detecting AI algorithms have already identified 27,000 new pieces of space debris, bringing the known number to 1.3 ...
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Surprise arrival: A fragment of the Moon just circled Earth
Earth briefly hosted a 33-foot object, 2024 PT5, as a mini-moon. Scientists suggest it might be lunar debris from an ancient ...
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‘Dark comets’ could reveal how Earth got its oceans
Scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from. But two populations of so-called dark comets may tell ...
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Asteroid Vesta found to have channels that look like water-made gullies
When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft visited the giant asteroid Vesta, it discovered intriguing channels on the rocky surface, ...
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Small Asteroid Captured Hours Prior To Earth Impact
EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary. Credit: Space.com | footage: Krisztián Sárneczky / orbit animation: NASA/ ...
These space missions will take off in 2025
Space agencies worldwide are gearing up missions in 2025 to expand humanity's horizons, from the moon and Mars to asteroids and beyond.
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Starship catch to private spacewalk: 11 historic space achievements of 2024
With 2024 coming to a close, we look at the biggest space achievements of the year from NASA, SpaceX, China, and more.
MIT astronomers find some of smallest asteroids ever detected, discovery may help with planetary defense, researchers say
Earlier this month, researchers announced they found the smallest asteroids ever detected within the main belt, which is a ...
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'Like nothing we've seen before': James Webb telescope spies a mysterious asteroid-comet hybrid lurking past Jupiter
The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual ...