Study Finds Earth’s Small Asteroid Visitor Likely Chunk of Moon Rock
Lee esta historia en español aquí. The near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. ...
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NASA’s Planetary Defenders Head to the Sundance Film Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIjuBrPlxTU Trailer for NASA’s upcoming documentary, “Planetary Defenders,” which will take audiences inside the high-stakes world of asteroid hunting and ...
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Astronomers Use JWST To Study a Rare Asteroid-Comet Hybrid Named “Chiron” todayheadline
Centaurs — celestial bodies that combine asteroids’ rockiness and comets’ gaseousness — are relatively rare and short-lived components of our ...
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How do spacecraft avoid collisions in the asteroid belt?
Back to Article List From the December 2024 issue The main belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter ...
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Smallest main-belt asteroids ever detected found in JWST data
Back to Article List MIT researchers have identified 138 near-Earth objects using a common astrophotography technique. NASA’s James Webb Space ...
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The 2024 Geminid Meteor Shower Is About To Peak — Here’s What to Know todayheadline
As 2024 winds down, so too is the Geminid meteor shower. One of the final meteor showers of the year ...
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A look back at NEOWISE, the NASA mission that cataloged objects around Earth for over a decade
WISE, NEOWISE’s predecessor mission, imaged the entire sky in the mid-infrared range. Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech/UCLA The NASA project NEOWISE, which has ...
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Could comets, asteroids be responsible for Earth’s rich water reserves? New Nasa study reveals shocking details todayheadline
A new study by NASA have found that water on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has a similar molecular signature to the water ...
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Major Eocene Asteroid Didn’t Change Earth’s Climate in the Long Term todayheadline
Asteroid impacts have changed Earth’s landscape time and time again. Some impacts caused great change to occur, like the Chicxulub ...
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Bacteria found in asteroid sample – but they're not from space
Bacteria on a sample from the Ryugu asteroid, viewed with an electron microscopeMatthew J. Genge et al. 2024 A rock ...
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