Asteroids have long been a source of fascination and fear for humanity. These celestial bodies, remnants from the …
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NASA Just Shut Down a Planetary Defence Mission That Tracks Asteroids. Now What?
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesLaunched in 2011, NASA’s NEOWISE mission operated in Earth’s orbit until late last week. It detected more than …
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NASA Mission Concludes After Years of Successful Asteroid Detections
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesThe infrared NEOWISE space telescope relayed its final data about asteroids and comets to Earth before the project …
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New Results from NASA’s DART Planetary Defense Mission Confirm We Can Deflect Deadly Asteroids
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesWhat would we do if we spotted a hazardous asteroid on a collision course with Earth? Could we …
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Since NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft intentionally slammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on Sept. 26 — altering its …
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Scientists Release First Analysis of Rocks Plucked From Speeding Asteroid
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesAfter a six-year journey, a plucky spacecraft called Hayabusa2 zinged back into Earth’s atmosphere in late 2020 and …
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Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and …
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There are so many amazing facts about space. Scientists are making new discoveries all the time and it’s …
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Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), a team of astronomers has obtained the sharpest …
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An international team of researchers searched for pieces of a small asteroid tracked in space and then observed …
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