NASA is sending a spacecraft to an asteroid said to be worth quintillions
NASA has sent a rocket to observe an asteroid called Psyche that is thought to be rich in iron, nickel and other rare ...
What is Nasa planning to do with asteroid worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000?
It has been just over a year since Nasa sent a spacecraft after a $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 asteroid. That’s 10 quintillion ...
Earth ring theory may shed light on an unexplained ancient climate event, scientists say
Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...
Is the mini-moon from 1981 and 2022 coming back to Earth in 2051? History, importance and ...
Earth's gravity briefly captured asteroid 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. This rare event, lasting from September to November 2024, a ...
Earth’s ‘second moon’ is about to vanish from skies and won’t be back until 2055 ...
A BUS-SIZED “mini moon” is in the final days of its trip to Earth’s skies – and will soon vanish until 2055. The holidaying ...
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China plans to crash a spacecraft into a distant asteroid
The current target is the near-Earth object 2015 XF261, a 30-metre-long asteroid tens of millions of kilometres away from Earth. Such small asteroids are an important area of study. They strike ...
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Rare events add interest to astronomy: The Night Sky by Steve Conard
Planets move among the stars along the ecliptic plane, but if you wait long enough, they will return to the same location ... you might not ever have one come to your location during your lifetime.
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'Superluminous' nova from rare stellar duo spotted in Milky Way's galactic neighbor
This summer, a dead star in a nearby galaxy flared back to life in an abnormally brilliant but brief nova, providing astronomers a fleeting glimpse of a mysterious class of stellar duo.