In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer threatens to hit Earth, but we can still hit it — for science!The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...
Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...
Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...
A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...
A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.
New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted ...
For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...
The asteroid, 2024 YR4, was detected by UH’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and given a 3% probability ...
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Hera asteroid mission takes stunning images of Mars’s moon DeimosA mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...
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