NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth
NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...
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Meteorites and asteroids tracked back to their place of origin in the solar system
Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...
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The Sky This Week from March 21 to 28: Galilean moon action
Plus: Observe two stunning spirals, see Venus reappear as a morning star, and enjoy the Last Quarter Moon in the sky this ...
Pallas family asteroids reveal unique blue spectroscopic profiles
Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...
Horoscopes March 16-22
Overview Accompanying last week’s Mercury retrograde, the asteroids Juno and Vesta are set to enter their retrograde cycles this week. Juno’s retrograde begins on March 19, prompting us to reflect on ...
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The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought
The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...
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This asteroid won’t destroy Earth. But a Baltimore-run telescope is watching.
Good news: The asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth in 2032. Bad news: There’s a small chance it hits the moon. Researchers later this month, and again in May, are planning to use the James Webb Space ...
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Astronomers watching 'city-killer' asteroid to determine chance of striking Earth in 2032
GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide wi ...
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150-Foot Asteroid 2025 DU2 Speeding Toward Earth At 38929 MPH; What Is It? NASA Reveals All
A huge space rock, dubbed by the US space agency NASA as Asteroid 2025 DU2 is rushing toward a close encounter with Earth and it is set to happen today. Not only is this a massive 150-foot asteroid, ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 may hit the Moon, raising concerns for future lunar missions; here’s what NASA says
Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential risk to the Moon, with a 1.7% chance of collision despite Earth now being safe. If it impacts, it could form a large crater and create meteoroids, affecting ...
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NASA Warns Of Massive 160-ft Asteroid Zooming Toward Earth At 62,650 KMPH: How Close Will It Get?
Although this asteroid will miss Earth by a distance of 542,000 km – which is about 1.4 times the distance between Earth and the Moon – its size and speed make it a stark reminder of the lurking ...
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Hope is all but lost for private asteroid probe in deep space — 'the chance of talking with Odin is minimal'
The first-ever private asteroid mission appears to be over, just a week or so after it left the ground. California startup AstroForge launched its Odin spacecraft on Feb. 26, on the same SpaceX ...