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NASA's DART: Redirecting An Asteroid To Protect Earth
New ReviewThe first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect Earth from the threat of an asteroid impact. By smashing a spacecraft into the smaller member of the...
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NASA Finds Most Earth-Like Planet Yet
New ReviewResearchers have discovered the most similar planet yet to Earth, 1,400 light-years away. Kepler-452b orbits its star in 385 days, just 20 days longer than our own year. Its star is just 4% larger, a billion and a half years older, and...
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China's Tianwen-2 Probe To Collect Samples From An Earth Quasi-Moon - Launch Prep Underway
The Tianwen-2 probe is being prepped for launch at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The probe will "collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and conducting an exploration of comet...
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Amazing Views Of Mars And Its Moons Captured By Hera Spacecraft During Flyby
ESA's Hera mission flying by Mars. See views captured with its Asteroid Framing Cameras. Credit; ESA - European Space Agency Music: A New Beginning by Bruce Brus / courtesy of Epidemic Sound
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Lucy Spacecraft Captured 1st Ever Close-Up Views Of Asteroid Donaldjohanson
NASA's Lucy spacecraft has captured the first-ever view of asteroid Donaldjohanson. It was reported by NASA the spacecraft’s closest approach distance was 600 miles (960 km). Credit: Space.com | imagery: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins...
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OTD In Space - May 9: Japan Launches Hayabusa Mission To Asteroid
On May 9, 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched the first-ever asteroid sample return mission, Hayabusa. This was also the first mission to land on an asteroid. Hayabusa would spend about two years chasing down a...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 Seen By Very Large Telescope
The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope observed asteroid 2024 YR4 in Jan. 2025. The probability of the asteroid impacting Earth in 2032 has dropped to .001%. Credit: Space.com | ESO/O. Hainaut et al. / ESA/Planetary...
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How worried should we be about an asteroid hurtling toward Earth? | Hanomansing Tonight
NASA says the chances of a direct hit by asteroid 2024 YR4, which could be the size of a football field, keep shifting. CBC News’s Johanna Wagstaffe and Sarah Galashan discuss what people should watch for.
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Earth's First Planetary Defense
Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect us. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
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Footage Of Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Touchdown On Asteroid Ryugu
See multiple views from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft's touching down on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Credit: JAXA/U. Tokyo/Kochi U./Rikkyo U./Nagoya U./Chiba Inst. Tech./Meiji U./U. Aizu/AIST
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See ESA Hera Spacecraft's Trajectory To The Didymos Asteroid System
ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency
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Asteroid 23 BU Time-Lapse Seen Shortly Before Super Close Approach To Earth
Gianluca Masi from the Virtual Telescope Project captured asteroid 2023 BU when it less than 40,000 km (25,854 mi.) away from Earth earlier this year. It’s closest approach to Earth was about 3,600 km (~2,236 mi) away. Credit: Gianluca...
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Earth To Temporarily Capture A 'Mini-Moon' - See An Orbit Animation
Earth captured asteroid 2024 PT5 back in September and expected to hold on to it till November according to Universidad Complutense de Madrid professor Carlos de la Fuente Marcos. See an orbit animation of the estimated 37 foot wide...
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OTD In Space - October. 31: Skull-Shaped Halloween Asteroid Flies By Earth
On October 31, 2015, an asteroid shaped like a human skull flew by Earth. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com It arrived with excellent timing on Halloween, which made the already-creepy asteroid even creepier. During its...
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Video: Small Asteroid Captured Hours Prior To Earth Impact
Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary. Credit: Space.com | footage: Krisztián Sárneczky / orbit animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech |...
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ESA launches Hera mission to return to deflected asteroid in bid to learn how to protect Earth
Hera will survey the asteroid deflected by NASA's DART spacecraft, the results of which could lay the foundation of Earth's planetary defence system.
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Europe's Hera spacecraft blasts off on planetary defence mission
The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft blasted off aboard a SpaceX rocket Monday, beginning its two-year-long voyage to a double asteroid system beyond the orbit of Mars. The mission is a follow-up to NASA's successful DART mission...
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Meteorite From A 4 Billion Year Old Asteroid Holds 2,600 Compounds
Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.
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Asteroid will strike Earth later today, astronomers say – but it should be fine
An asteroid struck the Earth on Wednesday 4 September.Source: LUMEN / The Independent
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Closest Earth-like Planet
Breakthrough Starshot is a future space mission that plans to send tiny, laser-powered probes to another star system, aiming to reach Proxima b, a potentially Earth-like planet. These spacecraft will travel at 20% the speed of light...
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Before-And-After Satellite Images of Earth from Space
These images show how quickly Earth’s environment can change, from shrinking lakes like the Aral Sea to melting glaciers and wildfires in Yellowstone. Human actions like farming, building dams, and digging for oil are also changing...
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Amazing Images of a Changing Earth, From Space
Satellite images show how fast the Earth is changing due to things like melting glaciers, wildfires, dams, and growing cities. These changes can affect people’s lives, such as forcing them to move or losing access to water and land....
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The uncharted cosmos, a self-taught astronomer's journey
Explore the inspiring story of a self-taught astronomer dedicated to discovering near-Earth objects and building his own telescopes.
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Exploring the Universe: Asteroids, Comets, and More!
In this video, children learn about various celestial objects in space, including asteroids, comets, meteors, and constellations. They also learn a fun mnemonic to remember the order of the planets in our solar system. The video...