Earth Loses Its ‘Mini Moon’ As Surprising Origin Revealed—What To Know
Asteroid 2024 PT5, Earth's temporary mini-moon, is about to return to orbiting the sun after two months in orbit. A new study ...
Will NASA's Mission to $10 Quintillion Psyche Asteroid Make Us All Rich?
The asteroid 16 Psyche is theorized to contain $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 worth of valuable metals, including platinum and ...
An Asteroid’s Destruction May Have Given Mars Rings, Then Moons
Something’s not quite right about the moons of Mars. They are too small — Phobos is 17 miles across, and Deimos is a mere ...
What is Nasa planning to do with asteroid worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000?
It has been just over a year since Nasa sent a spacecraft after a $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 asteroid. That’s 10 quintillion ...
Asteroids pass by each day. Luckily, large asteroid crashes are uncommon.
Every year, over 3,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are found by NASA's survey telescopes. With the use of more powerful and ...
This Is Where ‘Shooting Stars’ Really Come From — Scientists
New research reveals that 70% of meteorites that strike Earth originate from three young asteroid families in the main ...
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New space mission may intercept giant asteroid Apophis before its close call with Earth
The Ramses mission will rendezvous with Apophis in February 2029, two months before its closest approach to Earth on Friday, ...
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This Is How Asteroid Mining Could Forever Change the Earth and Space
The Earth’s natural resources are enormous but not infinite. A lack of some rare minerals can hinder technological ...
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Earth Bids Goodbye to Its ‘Mini-Moon’ as Astronomers Investigate Where Our Planet’s Asteroid Companion Came From
Preliminary research suggests asteroid 2024 PT5, which stuck around Earth for almost two months, has lunar origins ...
Weather Words: Asteroid
Last week, an asteroid measuring 3 feet in diameter burned up off the California coast just hours after being detected.