PASADENA, Calif. — NASA says its Dawn spacecraft is preparing to study the massive asteroid Vesta after being captured into its orbit over the weekend. Dawn was 9,900 miles from Vesta and 117 million ...
A study has poured cold water on the film theory that humans could simply blow up an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Asteroids and meteors are a prime candidate for wiping out humanity, ...
The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists’ minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is ...
A Japanese robotic spacecraft called Hayabusa2 released the first of three small landers onto an asteroid this week in an attempt to survey its surface. Just getting to an asteroid is difficult, and ...
A group of Chinese scientists have proposed a method to prevent the possible collision of Apophis — a 46—million—tonne asteroid — with the Earth in 2036. The asteroid — which is 270 metres in diameter ...
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