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40 000 near-Earth asteroids discovered!
Nov 21, 2025 (ESA)
An asteroid is a rocky leftover from the formation of the Solar System more than four billion years ago. Most of them orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. A ...
ESA pinpoints 3I/ATLAS's path with data from Mars
Nov 14, 2025 (ESA)
By being able to use Mars-based data for an unusual observation, we learned more about the interstellar comet's path through our Solar System in a valuable test...
Largest modern crater identified in Chinas Holocene geology
Nov 13, 2025 (SPX)
The Jinlin crater measures 900 meters in diameter, making it the largest known impact crater formed in the Holocene period, surpassing the 300-meter-wide Macha ...
Southern Taurid meteor shower to peak this week with bright fireballs
Nov 04, 2025 (UPI)
The meteor shower is active between September and November when debris left in the wake of the Comet Encke falls into the Earth's atmosphere at high speeds, acc...
Halloween fireballs could signal increased risk of cosmic impact or airburst in 2032 and 2036
Oct 30, 2025 (SPX)
Meteors are flashes and streaks of light that appear when dust, pebbles and rocks burn up as they enter Earth's atmosphere. These fragments come from Comet Enck...
Europe advances asteroid defense as GomSpace secures operational support contract
Oct 27, 2025 (SPX)
The contract runs until the second quarter of 2027 and involves advanced operational support for Juventas during the cruise and asteroid exploration phases, thr...
Asteroid with Second-Fastest Orbit Discovered Hidden in Sunlight
Oct 21, 2025 (SPX)
The asteroid's path takes it inside the orbit of Venus and across that of Mercury, placing it among an extremely rare class of so-called "twilight" asteroids. T...
Asteroid rotation patterns reveal new insights into their interiors
Oct 13, 2025 (SPX)
"By leveraging Gaia's unique dataset, advanced modelling and AI tools, we've revealed the hidden physics shaping asteroid rotation, and opened a new window into...
Asteroid near Earth detected hours after it passed the planet
Oct 08, 2025 (UPI)
The European Space Agency said Monday that a 3- to 10-foot-wide asteroid was picked up by radar last Wednesday some 265 miles above Earth over Antarctica, near ...
Gaia data uncovers hidden link between asteroid collisions and chaotic spin states
Oct 07, 2025 (SPX)
Dr Wen-Han Zhou of the University of Tokyo, who presented the results, said, "By leveraging Gaia's unique dataset, advanced modelling and A.I. tools, we've reve...
China's Tianwen 2 probe marks halfway milestone en route to asteroid target
Oct 01, 2025 (XNA)
The agency released a monitor camera image showing the spacecraft with the Chinese flag visible, Earth appearing as a distant sphere in the background. Launched...
Asteroid strike confirmed as cause of Silverpit Crater in North Sea
Sep 25, 2025 (SPX)
A team led by Dr Uisdean Nicholson of Heriot-Watt University, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, combined seismic imaging, microscopic rock ana...
Western researchers support international collaboration for planetary defence
Sep 25, 2025 (SPX)
The asteroid, quite ordinary by space rock standards, exploded so quickly and with so much force that its actions underscore the potential threat of similar - a...
Traces of life detected in Finnish crater shed light on origins of life on Earth
Sep 25, 2025 (SPX)
The discovery was made in Finland's 78-million-year-old Lappajarvi crater and provides direct evidence that meteorite impacts can generate habitable environment...
Cosmic glass in Australia reveals traces of massive asteroid strike
Sep 22, 2025 (SPX)
Tektites form when a space rock collides with Earth, melts surface material, and blasts molten debris across vast distances. The newly recognised tektites, disc...
Asteroid target for Hayabusa2 found to be smaller and faster than expected
Sep 22, 2025 (SPX)
Lead researcher Toni Santana-Ros of the University of Alicante explained that their analysis shows the asteroid measures only 11 meters across, compared with pr...
Water once persisted on Ryugu parent asteroid long after formation
Sep 22, 2025 (SPX)
Carbonaceous asteroids are thought to have supplied Earth with water. Ryugu, visited by JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft in 2018, preserved an unaltered record of fl...
Amateur astronomers help track asteroid to French impact site
Sep 19, 2025 (AFP)
Asteroid 2023 CX1 briefly lit up the sky as it disintegrated over northwestern France at around 4:00 pm (1400 GMT) on February 13, 2023. Seven hours earlier, a ...
Asteroid Mining: Trillion-Dollar Fortune or Space Fantasy?
Sep 11, 2025 (SPX)
Priceless Treasures in Space Supporters believe asteroid mining is the next logical step for the economy. Its potential is huge. A small asteroid only 100 meter...
Finding safe impact zones to deflect hazardous asteroids
Sep 11, 2025 (SPX)
"Even if we intentionally push an asteroid away from Earth with a space mission, we must make sure it doesn't drift into one of these keyholes afterwards. Other...
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