The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

A European spacecraft on a journey to study NASA's asteroid crash site did a quick pop-in of Mars on its way, capturing ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

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Lucy will explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids – thought to be “fossils of planet formation.” Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid ...

Last week, Asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but the numbers go up and down every day ... Asteroids come close to striking the Earth frequently.

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A separate idea called a gravity tractor involves a large spacecraft flying up near the asteroid and -- without touching it -- using its gravitational pull to tug it away from Earth. Another non ...

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