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How Asteroid Bennu Caught NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission By Surprise And Nearly Destroyed It 

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NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission has been on a mission to collect asteroid samples and return them safely to Earth. However, as the space probe reached the asteroid Bennu region, it discovered a celestial body that appeared and behaved differently from what researchers earlier suggested. Hence, the OSIRI-REx mission was nearly caught by surprise by the space …

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Asteroid Apophis Will Visit Earth in 2029. Here’s Why Scientists Want NASA to Send a Probe To Visit The Spacerock First

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Astronomers have discovered that asteroid Apophis will visit Earth in 2029. However, NASA’s Small Bodies Assessment Group wants the American Space Agency to send a space probe to the asteroid before it finally makes its closest approach to our home planet towards the end of this decade. Scientists previously thought that Apophis (asteroid 99942) might …

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The Largest Known Asteroid Impact Structure on Earth Is Buried In Southeast Australia, Scientists Discover In A New Study

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Scientists recently conducted a new study that revealed how the largest known asteroid impact structure on Earth is buried in Southeast Australia. Dr. Andrew Glickson a geologist and Visiting Fellow of the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at Australian National University and his colleague Tony Yeates published the new study in the journal Tectonophysics. During …

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Scientists Explain How Astronauts Will Land On An Asteroid in the Future

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Can humans land on an asteroid? After NASA proved that asteroids can be redirected using a kinetic impact with its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) in September 2022, more scientists became interested in exploring asteroids. The American Space Agency used the DART mission to explore several impossibilities and show the level of exploration humans can be attaining …

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Just Spotted This Donut-Shaped Mars Rock That May Have Fallen From the Sky to the Surface Of the Red Planet

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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, which has been exploring the surface of Mars since 2021 recently spotted a rocky donut that may have landed on the Martian surface from the sky. The most powerful rover currently operating on Mars rolled up to the rocky donut on Friday (June 23) to capture the big, dark stone with …

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Astronomers Discover the Closest Blackhole to Earth in Our Cosmic Backyard

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Astronomers estimate that there are about 100 million black holes in the Milky Way galaxy alone. However, scientists spent years searching for the closest cosmic messy eater to our home planet. Astronomers recently used the International Gemini Observatory in Hawaii to discover the closest blackhole to Earth. This is the first time astronomers are discovering …

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NASA Just Announced that an Olympic Pool Size Massive Asteroid has a 1 in 625 Chance of Striking Earth in 2046

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NASA revealed that a newly discovered massive asteroid has a one in 625 chance of slamming into Earth in 2046. The asteroid is named 2023 DW and was first discovered on February 27. Astronomers closely studied its size and concluded that the asteroid is about the size of an Olympic swimming pool. Even though the …

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3 Skyscraper-sized Asteroids heading toward Earth this week, NASA Warns

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There are millions of asteroids and meteorites scattered throughout the solar system and in some cases, they fly in our direction. NASA announced that three massive asteroids will fly past Earth this week. However, they will not slam into our home planet as the closest one will come within 2.2 million miles (3.5 million kilometers) of Earth. …

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Chelyabinsh meteor

On Feb. 15, 2013, exactly 10 years ago, Chelyabinsk Meteor explodes over Chelyabinsk, Russia, Here’s How Countries are working to prevent future impact on Earth

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Feb. 15, 2013, is the day most people living in the Southern Ural region in Russia will never forget so quickly. People were going on with their regular daily activities when a Chelyabinsh meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk Russia causing several people to sustain one form of injury or the other. Although no death was recorded, …

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Small Asteroid

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Accidentally Discovers Extremely Small Asteroid in the Main Asteroid Belt Region, And This may the smallest object ever Spotted by Webb

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Scientists and Engineers that designed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope never intended to search for small objects in our solar system. However, Scientists recently deployed the Mid-Infrared Instrument of the sophisticated space telescope to detect an extremely small asteroid. The discovered asteroid is approximately the size of Rome’s Colosseum which is about 300 to 650 …

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