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Asteroid Day — everything you need to know about the rocks in our solar system that could one day hit Earth
Asteroid Day is just around the corner and there are many questions that people have about asteroid…
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There are 19 interstellar asteroids between Jupiter and Neptune — and even computers can’t predict where they are headed
Interstellar asteroids — asteroids from outside our solar system — may not be as rare as we once …
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The space rock that doomed the dinosaurs was shrapnel from a comet that flew too close to the sun, a Harvard study suggests
The origin of the space rock that killed the dinosaurs has been a mystery. A new study suggests it …
Aylin Woodward
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An asteroid that whizzed past Earth last week had its own Moon
Asteroids fly past Earth on a daily basis. More often than not, it’s more than one asteroid on any …
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NASA's only mission to the Asteroid Belt is about die an 'impotent' death after 11 years in space
"It will struggle for a short time, but it will be impotent," Marc Rayman, Dawn's mission manager a…
Dave Mosher
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An asteroid only turns into a meteor if it falls to Earth
Space agencies keep an eye out for these objects have come to realise that the asteroids having …
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Elon Musk says we have no defence against asteroid ‘God of Chaos'
Apophis, also known as the 'God of Chaos' asteroid, will be making its way to Earth in ten years. …
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NASA's planet-hunter uncovers its first world with two stars 1,300 light-years away
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed its observations during the 235th …
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NASA is on a 'daring adventure' to get the closest-ever photos of Ceres - a dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter
"Because of [a] commitment to protect Ceres from Earthly contamination, Dawn will not land or crash…
Dave Mosher
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A planet thrice the size of Jupiter discovered due to its 'strange orbit'
It took 20 years of observations to figure out that the planet has an 'highly eccentric'…
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A scientist's mesmerizing animation shows how our entire solar system orbits an unseen center — and it's not the sun
Jupiter, Saturn, and the sun play a constant game of tug-of-war around the invisible center of our …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scientists are one step closer to cracking the cosmic case of a dwarf planet's disappearing craters
Based on collision models, scientists figured Ceres should have accumulated about 10 to 15 cra…
Ali Sundermier
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Pluto-bound probe snaps its first images of the dwarf planet
New Horizons is equipped with seven different science instruments to study Pluto and its five known…
Mike Wall
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A huge pyramid-like mountain exists in the asteroid belt and NASA can't explain it
Expect to hear about other surprises on Ceres in the coming years: The Dawn spacecraft is in such a…
Sarah Kramer,Dave Mosher
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NASA is about to solve a major mystery about dwarf planet Ceres
Last year astronomers at the European Space Agency peered at Ceres with the Herschel telescope and …
Kelly Dickerson
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These incredible images are the best yet of our near-neighbor dwarf planet Ceres
The top row of the image below shows the bright spot near Ceres's equator. The bottom row shows a p…
Kelly Dickerson
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Humans just made history by reaching an icy dwarf planet for the first time
"We feel exhilarated," Chris Russell, principal investigator of the Dawn mission at the University …
Jessica Orwig
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NASA Just Released The Best Images Of A Dwarf Planet We've Ever Seen
They also want to investigate why the dwarf planet is spewing jets of water vapor into space - a di…
Jessica Orwig
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Is it Planet 9 or Planet X? Scientists spar over what to call the solar system's hypothetical missing world
Stern is an ardent defender of Pluto's planethood. In 2015, shortly after New Horizons flew past Pl…
Dave Mosher
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Humans are about to make our first visit to a dwarf planet - a mission more than 100 years in the making
This is made possible by its ion propulsion system, which gave the spacecraft enough power to escap…