Jumping on an asteroid: How VR is being used to visit worlds we can never reach
(Image credit: Jackson Ryan) I'm standing so close to JAXA's Hayabusa2 asteroid lander that I could reach out and touch ...
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Tag: Asteroid
It’s International Asteroid Day, and astronomers have much to celebrate
Asteroid 2024 MK brushed past Earth on Saturday at 9:45 am ET (13:45 UTC). Although it posed no threat to ...
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A harmless asteroid will whiz past Earth Saturday. Here’s how to spot it
In this artistic rendering, two asteroids fly past Earth. An asteroid will whiz harmlessly past Earth Saturday June 29, 2024. ...
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A rare risk of asteroid fastballs turns scientists into sluggers
This article was originally featured on Undark. On a fall evening in 2022, scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied ...
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Mars might have an asteroid problem
Astronomers have been surveying the sky for years to catalog and track so-called Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), asteroids and comets that ...
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Car-size asteroid gives Earth a close shave in near-miss flyby (video, photo)
A small asteroid flew very close to Earth Tuesday morning (May 14), just two days after it was discovered by ...
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Curious asteroid Selam, spotted by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, is a cosmic toddler
(Image credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL) When NASA's Lucy mission passed by the near-Earth asteroid Dinkinesh last November, it discovered that ...
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Giant Mars asteroid impact creates vast field of destruction with 2 billion craters
An image of the craters created by the Corinto impact 2.3 million years ago. (Image credit: JPL-Caltech, NASA, Universidad de ...
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Rendezvous with an asteroid | Science
A planetary scientist recounts an audacious mission to retrieve mineral samples from space...>>> Read full article>>> Copyright for syndicated content ...
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The Asteroid Hunters: 10 Years Preparing for “Armageddon”
It is not uncommon for asteroids to hit Earth. In 2013, the Chelyabinsk meteor exploded over Russia, injuring hundreds. Credit: ...
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