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Earth with a highly elliptical orbit would experience extreme temperature swings; how would life adapt? Trump Signs Executive ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...
2025 HU isn't the only asteroid approaching the Earth today. NASA is also tracking an airplane-sized space rock known as 2025 GD1, which is estimated to be about 86 feet across and will zip past the ...
"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of discovery." ...
The close-up views of asteroid Donaldjohanson are a preview of what’s to come for Lucy on its 12-year quest to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...
A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...
No Trojan asteroid has been visited before. Trojan asteroids are a group of primordial bodies that orbit the sun in two distinct groups, both behind and ahead of Jupiter. Often called “Jupiter's ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes ... will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit around the sun. Swarms of Trojans precede and follow ...
It successfully changed its orbit slightly, proving that one day, it might be possible to nudge a dangerous asteroid onto a safe trajectory. DART’s inspiration? Apophis. The European Space ...