Hera Asteroid Probe Spots Mysterious Martian Moon During Flyby
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.
Asteroid Mining Startup Loses Its Spacecraft Somewhere Beyond the Moon
A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.
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NASA’s Webb Telescope To Study Asteroid 2024 YR4 As Impact Risk Rises
NASA will use the James Webb Space Telescope to gather ... precise estimate of the asteroid’s size. Its MIRI instrument will make observations in early March with a second round of observations ...
City-killer asteroid may be hurtling towards Earth right NOW…& we have no way to detect it, space agency chiefs warn
A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...
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Telescope Captures "City-Killer" Asteroid, NASA Tracking Potential Threat
"We took 12 200-second long exposures in the Red band and tracked the motion of the asteroid to obtain ... massive Gemini South telescope in Chile to spot it. The bright moon, which was 70 per ...
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NASA massively lowers impact risk of 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 to 1 in 360
Don't worry. Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 99.72% chance of missing Earth in 2032. If you've been worrying about reports of a possible asteroid impact in 2032, we have very good news. NASA has dropped ...
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2032 asteroid now has a higher chance of striking the Moon than Earth
On Wednesday February 19, the waning Moon darkened skies which allowed astronomers to see the asteroid with ground-based telescopes again ... which is the second highest rating ever given to ...
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Chilling new telescope pic of 30,000mph ‘city-killer’ asteroid with 1-in-48 chance of smashing into Earth
Bryce explained that they "took 12 200-second ... asteroid was relatively faint - meaning it could only be picked up using a very large telescope. Another challenge was presented by the moon ...
What are the chances an asteroid will impact Earth in 2032?
February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...
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See images of the ‘city-killer’ asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth
To capture such a distant object the, team “took 12 200-second ... the asteroid was faint, necessitating the use of large telescopes to observe it. Another hurdle was the fact that the moon ...
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Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad
AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid ... second robotic spacecraft, called Odin, is bundled into a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will also launch a privately built ...