It’s not sci-fi: Americans support asteroid defense spending
Planetary defense is a global imperative, of course, but for the time being, NASA — and, by extension, the United States — is ...
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Filmmakers emphasise ‘You Bet Your Asteroid NASA Has a Story to Tell’
NASA+ partnered with the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for a discussion about this new documentary, "Planetary Defenders." ...
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NASA Finalized Four Landing Sites On Asteroid Bennu
It was two weeks ago when astronomers captured breathtaking photographs of the asteroid Bennu or 101955 Bennu through the asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The spacecraft had managed to capture ...
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Watch: Vivid hues of small asteroid illuminate Caribbean as skygazers capture 'impressive collision'
The Caribbean Astronomy Society (SAC) said the "impressive" asteroid was visible across the entire Caribbean region at 7:05 p.m. local time Saturday. After hitting Earth's atmosphere, the space rock ...
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Irregular satellites of Jupiter: capture configurations of binary-asteroids
We have performed more than 10 5 simulations of binary-asteroid capture trajectories and considered four-body problem dynamics with the Sun, Jupiter and a pair of asteroids. Among the main results, we ...
Asteroid Bennu contains components essential for life, says NASA
This mission showed that the asteroid Bennu contains amino acids and chemical compounds present in human DNA. This shows, firstly, that the solar system had essential materials for life 4,5 billion ...