Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it — and others — will keep coming back
Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...
Chang'e-6 samples suggest 4.25-billion-year-old impact formed moon's South Pole–Aitken basin
Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...
NASA’s Lucy Mission Gears Up to Meet a 150-Million-Year-Old Space Relic
Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.
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Martian moon caught on camera during Hera flyby
Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...
NASA Tracking Airplane-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by NASA and other space agencies. The continuous monitoring of near-Earth ...
NASA launches new space telescope to map the entire sky in unprecedented color
VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — NASA launches new space telescope to map the entire sky in unprecedented color. Questions remain over how the MV Solong crashed into the Stena Immaculate ...
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Astronomers watching 'city-killer' asteroid to determine chance of striking Earth in 2032
The best case scenario is that the asteroid will pass within just 167,000 miles of our planet; the moon is 238,855 miles away, according to Space.com. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is just one of more than a ...
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Moon Lander’s Journey to Lunar Surface Ends With Uncertainty
It had the goal of flying past a near-Earth asteroid and beaming back ... Athena lander entered orbit around the moon on Monday. It has since been circling the moon at an altitude of 62 miles.
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Intuitive Machines sends another probe to the moon, but can't stick the landing
Intuitive Machines is downloading photos from the lander and will also get images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is circling the moon, in order to get a better idea of Athena's ...