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Could investing in asteroid mining make you a billionaire?
Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...
Space.com3d
Saturn and the moon put on a celestial show Sunday night. Here's how to see it
When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...
Space.com5d
Hera asteroid probe 'waves goodbye' at Earth and moon from 2.3 million miles away (image)
DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...
The Next Web5d
Apophis: a European space mission gets up close with an asteroid set to brush by Earth
A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...
Her Zindagi Hindi14d
Asteroid Five Times The Taj Mahal To Make Close Encounter With Earth: 4 Facts You Should Know About Asteroids
Some asteroids are substantial enough to possess their own moons. In 1993, the Galileo spacecraft made the groundbreaking discovery of the first asteroid moon. The S-type asteroid Ida has a moon ...
CNET14d
Earth Has a Temporary Mini-Moon Until Thanksgiving: Here's What That Means
It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...
DLR15d
Hera – planetary defence against asteroid impacts
The controlled impact of NASA's DART spacecraft on 26 September 2022 brought the asteroid moon closer to Didymos, shortening the moonlet’s orbital period by 32 minutes to 11 hours 23 minutes. The Hera ...
Newsweek17d
Bus-Sized Asteroid to Pass Between Earth and Moon Next Week
This asteroid is due to zoom past the Earth on October 28, passing us at a distance of about 148,000 miles, which is closer to our planet than the moon. This may sound like an immense distance ...
BGR17d
Some near-Earth asteroids could actually be pieces of the Moon
While the origins of these asteroids aren’t completely known, scientists believe at least one may have come from the Moon. The asteroid known as Kamo`oalewa is believed to be a fragment of the ...
Business Standard18d
580-ft building-sized asteroid to pass by Earth on October 24, Nasa says
The asteroid will pass the earth from a distance of 4,520,000 kilometres which is 11 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon. The asteroid is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid" ...
The Globe and Mail21d
Jupiter’s ocean moon, stranded astronauts and a special asteroid
We start with the news of the Europa Clipper and its search for the conditions of life on a watery moon around Jupiter. Then we talk about Earth’s new mini moon, before catching up on what’s ...