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A potentially hazardous asteroid roughly the size of an aircraft carrier is due to pass within 2.8 million miles (3.5 million ...
Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...
A swarm of giant city-killer asteroids hiding near Venus poses an “invisible threat” to life on Earth, astronomers have ...
The European Space Agency's (ESA) newest planetary defender has opened its "eye" to the cosmos for the first time. The Flyeye ...
A massive 190-foot asteroid, 2018 LE4, will make a close approach to Earth on June 7 at over 48,000 kilometres per hour., ...
Called Asteroid 2025 FA22, the space rock was placed at number three on the risk list by the agency for "possible impact" ...
An asteroid, 2025 KX8, will closely approach Earth on June 4, 2025. NASA is monitoring the space rock, which is about 36 ...
In the Northern Hemisphere, June 20 is the day on which the sun is highest in the sky, aka the summer solstice! This is the ...
The Tianwen-2 mission by China targets asteroid 2016 HO3 to gather samples, with plans for future missions to Mars and ...
DG5 is classified within the Apollo group—asteroids characterized by orbits that cross Earth's trajectory around the Sun. It ...
The large asteroid passes Earth 15 times between 1956 and 2125, according to Juan Luis Cano at the European Space Agency (ESA ...
Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...