#Asteroids

This big asteroid was discovered shortly before it was expected to hurtle past Earth. Any time you see a headline about asteroids approaching the planet, you can relax. Big and small asteroids fly by all the time.

From Quantamagazine RSS Feed: Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids, Failed Supernovas, and Interstellar Visitors

The newly discovered space rock is said to make a close call early next week, flying by Earth, but rather than panic, scientists say this could be a great chance to study the event up close.

Worlds this small and distant are thought to be too cold and have too little surface gravity to hold onto gases. But the findings suggest that icy, rocky objects in the solar system's outer reaches are more dynamic than we thought

From Gizmodo: Astronomer Finds a Shortcut to Mars by Following an Asteroid’s Journey Through Space

Can you go to them like asteroids also this looks crazy I can see it in the map and I saw a movin star then realised it wasn't apart of the sky box ts is mad

I watched Armageddon again fairly recently with Bruce Willis, oil drillers in space and an asteroid the size of Texas bearing down on Earth. Buried beneath the Hollywood chaos is a genuinely interesting question: What exactly could we do with an asteroid…

If humans are ever going to live permanently on Mars, someone is going to have to work out where all the raw materials, the food, they oxygen or the material for the structures to name just a few.…

Why are the surfaces of the tiny asteroids like Ryugu and Bennu rocky and not smooth?

Rubin’s largest asteroid haul yet, gathered before the Legacy Survey of Space and Time even begins, is just the “tip of the iceberg”

A new spacecraft concept called NOVA could keep asteroids from hitting our planet by using a huge magnet to gradually pull them apart while shifting their trajectories

Understanding the beginning of the solar system requires us to look at some very strange places. One such place is at the so-called “Trojan” asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit in front of and behind it.…

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Like 'accelerating from stationary to supersonic flight': Europe's Hera probe boosts speed, stays on course for November asteroid rendezvous

A car-sized asteroid is heading toward Earth for a flyby later tonight: Here's what you need to know

On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines.

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NASA/Scott Eckley These X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans released on March 17, 2026, give us a glimpse inside asteroid Bennu.