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Asteroid Will Hereafter Be Known as 'Alyankovic'
Astronomers have officially named an asteroid 'Alyankovic' in honor of the iconic musical comedian 'Weird Al' Yankovic.
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JWST discovers that Chariklo's invisible rings are changing
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Every asteroid with a 'neck' that astronomers had ever found had exactly two lobes joined at one narrow waist — until new images of the asteroid Nysa this month revealed a third lobe nobody expected, and nobody yet knows whether it was born whole or built
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In April 2029, asteroid Apophis will pass just 32,000 kilometres above Earth—inside the orbit of geostationary satellites—and NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft will follow close behind to see what Earth’s gravity did to it
NASA is preparing to study asteroid Apophis during its unprecedentedly close approach to Earth in April 2029.
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Scientists propose nuking solution to Doomsday asteroid — as thousands of city-killers swarm Earth
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Chinese rocket scientists find ‘most effective’ way to nuke a doomsday asteroid
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The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was around ten kilometres wide and hit 66 million years ago, and a 2024 study of rare metals in the debris it left behind traced its birthplace to beyond Jupiter, in the outer solar system
Coverage examines the size, origin, and extreme thermal effects of the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago.
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1st three-headed asteroid found in our solar system
Astronomers have discovered (44) Nysa, the first known three-lobed asteroid in our solar system, which is accompanied by its own moon.
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An Asteroid Scientists Have Tracked For 27 Years Just Turned Out to Be a Comet in Disguise
A near-Earth object tracked for 27 years as an asteroid has revealed itself to be a comet in disguise by growing a tail.
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China plans to hit an asteroid with a Mach 26 projectile in planet defence test
China is developing a planetary defense mission to strike a 30-meter asteroid at Mach 26 to test its ability to alter the object's trajectory.
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Asteroid with unexplained orbital shift turns out to be a 'dark comet'
An object tracked as an asteroid since 1998 has been reclassified as a dark comet following an unexplained orbital shift.
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It’s a Treasure to Science. Too Bad It Came Through Their Roof.
A meteorite that crashed through a home two years ago is revealed to contain rare fluids and amino acids from outer space.
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft, on its way to a metal-rich asteroid, used Mars as a gravitational slingshot in May 2026, skimming just 2,800 miles above the planet to gain the speed it needed
NASA's Psyche spacecraft has successfully utilized a Mars gravitational slingshot to accelerate toward a metal-rich asteroid of immense potential value.
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Scientists Say We Should Nuke Dangerous Asteroids—Just Not the Way You Think
Scientific research proposes new methods for planetary defense using nuclear energy to deflect potentially hazardous asteroids.
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Chinese scientists find the best way to nuke an asteroid on its way to impact Earth
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There were not one, but two asteroid encounters this weekend
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'Once-in-a-millennium' asteroid flyby will be visible to much of the world in 2029
A rare asteroid flyby scheduled for 2029 is drawing global attention to planetary defense capabilities and historical space rock impacts.
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Chinese Tianwen-2 space probe reaches asteroid for sampling
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Japan space probe skims asteroid in test for planetary defense
Japan's Hayabusa2 probe has successfully completed a close flyby of asteroid Torifune to test planetary defense technologies.
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Japan's Hayabusa2 probe completes flyby of Torifune asteroid | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
Japan's Hayabusa2 probe has successfully completed a flyby of the asteroid Torifune, marking a new phase in planetary defense research.
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The missing 500 million: Cosmic bombardment melted Earth's first crust
New research suggests an extended period of intense asteroid bombardment prevented Earth's early crust from forming and may have influenced the origins of life.
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China Is About To Land On Earth’s ‘Mini-Moon’
The Chinese spacecraft Tianwen-2 is closing in on the quasi-moon Kamoʻoalewa to collect surface samples.