- Asteroid - Wikipedia
An asteroid is a minor planet —an object larger than a meteoroid that is neither a planet nor an identified comet —that orbits within the inner Solar System or is co-orbital with Jupiter (Trojan asteroids)
- NASA Tracking Plane-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth
NASA is monitoring an asteroid—"2025 XM"—that is expected to pass within 295,000 miles of Earth today, December 9, according to data from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) The
- NASA Confirms Empire State Building-Sized Asteroid Is On Approach—What . . .
On March 21, 2021, an object the size of the Empire State Building—traveling at 77,000 miles per hour—passed within 1 25 million miles of Earth Asteroid 2001 FO32 was classified as
- Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Samples
The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life As part of the ongoing study of pristine samples delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft, three new papers published Tuesday by the
- Chance of a devastating asteroid impact briefly spiked in 2025
The chances of a devastating asteroid impact briefly spiked in 2025, after astronomers discovered a building-sized asteroid hurtling towards Earth The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, was first detected
- Asteroid hurtling toward Earth found to be teeming with building blocks . . .
Sugars essential for life were found for the first time alongside “space gum” on an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, indicating that our universe could be teeming with life, according to new
- Space gum and sugars discovered in asteroid Bennu samples, NASA . . .
Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life developed on Earth, scientists say
- NASA probe captures stunning photos of Earth and moon on the way to . . .
NASA's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft captured stunning new images as it whipped past Earth during a high-speed slingshot maneuver, sending the probe on a fast track toward the asteroid Apophis
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