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The observatory aims to map the night sky over a decade, potentially discovering millions of asteroids and billions of ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...
Twenty years ago, the U.S. Congress instructed NASA to find 90% of near-Earth asteroids threatening Earth. They've made progress finding these asteroids that orbit the sun and come to within 1.3 ...
Measuring approximately 120 feet in width, the asteroid will fly by at a velocity of 31,204 km/h, maintaining a safe distance ...
Rogue asteroids come closer to Earth than you may realize. ... Traveling at some 55,000 mph (88,500 km/h), if the asteroid had struck our planet, it could have really wreaked havoc.
Astronomers have revealed new sources of meteorites within the solar system's asteroid belt, helping us understand where potentially hazardous asteroids might also originate.. The researchers ...
About 80 asteroids are more than one kilometer (or 0.6 miles) long — big enough to make us go extinct. Lucky for us, a strike from one of these is unlikely to happen anytime soon.
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