This groundbreaking research offers fresh insights into the moons' unusual features, including their irregular, potato-like shapes and stable, near-circular orbits, challenging long-standing theories about their origins.
While these asteroids are not a threat to our planet, their proximity offers a valuable opportunity for scientists to observe and study these near-Earth objects in greater detail, enhancing our understanding of similar space phenomena.
A huge asteroid, nicknamed the 'God of Chaos,' is set to fly past Earth closer than some satellites do, leading scientists to reassess their predictions about a possible collision.
These asteroid-hit sites provide us with valuable insight into how asteroids have shaped our planet over the course of its history.
Asteroid 22 RQ is already heading in the direction of Earth traveling at an astonishing speed of 49,536 and will miss the planet on September 13.
The observations have allowed the team to constrain the 3D shape and mass of this peculiar asteroid, which resembles a dog bone, to a higher accuracy than ever before. Their research also provides clues as to how this asteroid and the two moons that orbit it formed.
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made one final flyby of asteroid Bennu on April 7 to take photos of disturbance left by October's sample collection.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Tuesday confirmed that the gas collected from the sample container inside the re-entry capsule of the asteroid explorer, Hayabusa2, is a gas sample originating from asteroid Ryugu.
An asteroid 210-metre in diametre is hurling towards earth and is likely to come particularly close on May 7, when the asteroid is like to fly past. NASA Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies has revealed details about the asteroid on its website. The Apollo category space rocks are considered to be the most dangerous type of intruders as they intersect Earth's orbit with theirs.
Over the last few months, the OSIRIS-REx team has been evaluating close-range data from four candidate sites to identify the best option for asteroid sample collection.
The space agency soon won hearts of netizens on Sunday as it released more images and even a video from Ryugu's surface.
On September 21, the small compact MINERVA-II1 rovers separated from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft. The MINERVA-II1 consists of two rovers, Rover-1A and Rover-1B.
London: Around 66 million years ago the same asteroid that killed the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous period are the ones who wiped out over 90 per cent of mammal species, significantly more than previously thought,
Washington: A small asteroid that is expected to make its closest approach to Earth on March 5 will pass peacefully without disturbing our world at a distance of between 9,000-17,000 km.According to NASA's Jet Propulsion
Washington: NASA scientists have captured a peanut-shaped asteroid that approached close to Earth last weekend. The next time an asteroid will approach Earth this close will be in 2054.The asteroid named 1999 JD6 appears to
Islamabad: The youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner and girls' education campaigner Malala Yousafzai now has an asteroid named after her, media reported.Amy Mainzer, astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, named Asteroid 316201 after
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