asteroid

Rings of dust encircle the young star in stunning new images from the James Webb Space Telescope. The photos offer a clearer view of the star system — already famous for previous images of a purported, now widely disputed, planet. Features…
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A large asteroid will safely zoom between Earth and the Moon on Saturday, a once-in-a-decade event that will be used as a training exercise for planetary defense efforts, according to the European Space Agency. The asteroid, named 2023…
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Uracil, a building block of life, has been found on the asteroid Ryugu. Yasuhiro Oba and colleagues discovered the precursor to life in samples collected from the asteroid and returned to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft, the team…
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NASA has discovered an asteroid the size of an Olympic-size swimming pool that has a "small chance" of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a possible impact on Valentine's Day in 2046, according to NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination…
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The asteroid, about the size of the Eiffel Tower, will approach our planet in December. According to the Daily Record, citing data from NASA, the asteroid is a space body called 4660 Nereus, 330 meters long. The article explained that…
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A scientific journal revealed a very exciting event that scientists monitored last week, as a small asteroid approached the Earth greatly and was about to collide with it, but the exciting thing is that scientists only observed it hours…
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The press service of the Planetarium Center in Moscow announced today, Tuesday, that an asteroid of the class "2016 AJ193" will approach Earth on August 21, and it is likely to be dangerous, but it will not pose a real threat to our planet.…
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