The asteroid will be at its closest to Earth at around 1600 GMT(9.30 p.m. IST) on Sunday, according to the Paris Observatory The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this …
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NASA Teases New ‘Psyche’ Spacecraft To Explore An Asteroid Worth Trillions Of Dollars, Hails ‘Triumph Of Human Determination’
This illustration, created in March 2021, depicts the 140-mile-wide (226-kilometer-wide) asteroid … [+] Psyche, which lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Psyche is the focal point …
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If a large asteroid strikes Earth, it has the potential to release an enormous amount of energy, … [+] leading to local or even global catastrophes. At ~450 meters long …
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Asteroid Apophis is not a threat to Earth for at least next 100 years, says US space agency NASA
Scientists were able to refine Apophis’ orbit around the sun thanks to radar observations earlier this month, when the asteroid passed within 17 million kilometers Apophis’s Earth-flyby in 2029. Image: …
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First detected in 2004, Apophis is now officially off NASA’s asteroid “risk list” Whew, now here’s some good cosmic news: NASA has given Earth the all clear for the next …
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More than 99% of all organisms that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct. Most of these just died out quietly. However, in Earth’s history there have been five …
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NASA On The Cusp With $967 Million Mission To Weird ‘Psyche’ Asteroid Worth 75,000 Times Our Global Economy
This artist’s concept depicts the 140-mile-wide (226-kilometer-wide) asteroid Psyche, which lies in … [+] the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Psyche is the focal point of NASA’s mission …
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The spacecraft, launched from Japan’s Tanegashima space centre in 2014, took four years to reach the asteroid Ryugu (Subscribe to Science For All, our weekly newsletter, where we aim to …
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Launched in December 2014, the unmanned Hayabusa2 spacecraft touched down twice last year on the asteroid Ryugu (Subscribe to Science For All, our weekly newsletter, where we aim to take …
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Researchers at NASA and in Japan have found HMT — a key ingredient for life — trapped inside an asteroid. This chemical is used in building other organic materials, including some …
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An asteroid “large enough to cause global effects,” will fly by Earth next month on April 29. According to NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, the asteroid is called 52768 …
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Here are some of the most interesting research papers to have appeared in top science journals last week (Subscribe to Science For All, our weekly newsletter, where we aim to …
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TOKYO (AP) — They resemble small fragments of charcoal, but the soil samples collected from an asteroid and returned to Earth by a Japanese spacecraft were hardly disappointing. The samples …
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Japan’s space agency said a capsule released by the country’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft has landed on a remote area in southern Australia, that contains long-awaited asteroid samples which could explain the …
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The capsule is to be released 2,20,000 kilometers (1,36,700 miles) away in space and land in a remote, sparsely populated area of Woomera, Australia, on Sunday. Japanese space agency officials …
