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A tiny grain from asteroid Ryugu has revealed djerfisherite, a mineral that normally forms in scorching, oxygen-poor settings ...
The freshly minted telescope discovered 2,000 previously unknown asteroids in just 10 hours. Weirdly, NASA doesn’t seem to ...
NASA has confirmed asteroid 2025 MM is approaching. The asteroid measures nearly 120 feet across—about the size of a small ...
World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...
The designation is already used in other parts of the world to raise awareness for space science and planetary defense.
This is just 0.5 percent of all the galaxies that the Rubin Observatory will collect during its Legacy Survey of Space and ...
While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in orbit, the first images by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed 2,000 ...
In its first year alone, it will double the amount of data collected so far by every other instrument in the history of optical astronomy ...
The first videos released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveal thousands of drifting asteroids, hundreds of thousands of ...
To mark the 10th anniversary of World Asteroid Day, a global live stream will showcase near-Earth asteroids and highlight ...