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NASA’s planetary defence programme has kept a keen eye on five asteroids classed as ‘potentially hazardous’, making their close approach to Earth. No need to panic, though. While the headlines may sound dramatic, here’s what’s really going on up there.
A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within one-third of the Earth-moon distance.
A gigantic asteroid, the size of a 25-storey building is fastly approaching the earth and it has already reached very close to the earth. The asteroid is 250 feet (76 metres) in length and is considered an Apollo-class near-Earth object (NEO).
( NewsNation) — Venus could be hiding asteroids that would be deadly if they hit Earth, some experts say. A new study published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics has shown that Venus has at least 20 co-orbital asteroids that could potentially approach the Earth.
Astronomers are using data from the recently decommissioned star-mapping satellite to help determine masses and more accurate orbits of celestial bodies closer to home.
SpaceX's Starship faced a setback as its recent launch spun out of control, impacting its Mars mission ambitions. Meanwhile, Japan's ISC plans a U.S. launch to tackle rocket shortages, and China's Tianwen-2 mission marks its first attempt to retrieve asteroid samples,
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Scientists Stunned to Find a Secret Ocean World Deep Beneath the Ice in the Asteroid Belt Between Mars and JupiterData from NASA’s Dawn mission and simulations from Purdue University claim that up to 90% of Ceres’ outer shell may be made of dirty ice.
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