World’s largest digital camera spots massive asteroid

An artist’s illustration depicts 2025 MN45—the fastest-rotating asteroid with a diameter over 500 meters that scientists have ...
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Asteroid Deflection Experiment Triggered Unexpected Debris

Planetary scientists have published a detailed follow-up on the debris from their historic 2022 asteroid impact experiment in outer space. What they found challenges their understanding of the ...

A billion-year-old asteroid offers new clues to how life may have begun on Earth

New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...
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'Potentially hazardous' asteroid 2024 YR4 was Earth's first real-life planetary defense test

The discovery and swift monitoring of asteroid 2024 YR4 earlier this year represented Earth's first real-life planetary defense test. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
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Wild things we learned from asteroid 2024 YR4’s close call

One rock, as big as a football field, careening through space on an elliptical orbit that lasts four years, suddenly found itself one of the most observed bodies in our solar system, according to NASA ...
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Europe, Japan to launch joint probe to track asteroid Apophis coming towards Earth

Apophis, a massive asteroid, will safely skim past Earth in 2029, visible to billions. The Ramses mission by Esa and JAXA ...

Goodbye to the moon? NASA tracks asteroid that could strike lunar surface in 2032, here’s what it really means

NASA is closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4 after scientists identified a potential lunar impact path in 2032. While it ...
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Moon landings, asteroid missions and new telescopes: Here are the top spaceflight moments to look forward to in 2026

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...