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NASA, Earth and asteroid

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some ...
When high-velocity asteroids land on Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout ...
Any uncertainty in the calculation of the object’s orbit causes variations in the predicted solution. Instead of one precise orbit, the calculation usually gives scientists a cloud of its possible ...
Aliens are visiting our solar system. Not little green men, sadly, but natural alien objects—cosmic bodies such as comets and ...
In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.
China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.
Ted Stryk's work was recognized by the International Astronomical Union, which names bodies in the solar system.
Billions of years ago, a migrating Jupiter tore through the young solar system, flinging a barrage of asteroids towards the ...