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NEOWISE, the NASA mission that cataloged objects around Earth for over a decade, has come to an end
On a clear night, the sky is full of bright objects—from stars, large planets and galaxies to tiny asteroids flying near Earth. These asteroids are commonly known as near-Earth objects ...
The Earth is safe from asteroid 2024 YR4. The moon? Not so much, Webb telescope finds
An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth
NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...
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Mysterious Dark Comets Puzzle Astronomers
A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and several years ago he saw something he couldn’t explain. Farnocchia works at ...
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‘City-killer’ asteroid won’t hit Earth in 2032, but don’t worry— another threat is looming
TN17 is one of 2,500 known potentially hazardous asteroids — Near Earth Objects that are larger than 460 feet wide and that could come within 4.65 million miles of Earth — according to the ...
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What will happen to the giant asteroid Apophis when it passes near Earth in 2029?
Davide Farnocchia of NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) explains that “thanks to recent optical and radar observations, the uncertainty in Apophis’s orbit has decreased from ...
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Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at JPL
The telescope’s destination is the first Lagrange point, or L1, one of five known places in the solar ... change the trajectory of a near-Earth object when it deliberately crashed a spacecraft ...
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‘City-killer’ asteroid YR4 might not hit Earth in 2032. But can it still be a threat?
Working with very sparse data since few asteroids were known at the time, he noted none went around ... space-based surveys like the upcoming Near-Earth Object (NEO) surveyor can be very efficient in ...
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Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Near-Earth Object Surveyor is a $1.4-billion infrared ... The telescope's destination is the first Lagrange point, or L1, one of five known places in the solar system where the balanced ...