Tag Archives: asteroids

[ad_1] Ralph and Lucy of NASA are ready to explore the Trojan asteroids of Jupiter, vestiges of the beginnings of our solar system. But Ralph and Lucy are not astronauts – Ralph …

[ad_1] This fall, two space exploration missions devoted to the study of asteroids will get into the heart of the matter: the Japanese Hayabusa2, and the American OSIRIS-REx. As French and German …

[ad_1] A mesmerizing – and alarming – NASA animation demonstrates how dramatic the increase in Earth-like asteroids entering our solar system has become over the last 20 years. The video, based on …

[ad_1] When the near-earth 2017 YE5 object was recently rocked by Earth, scientists made an incredible discovery: not only 2017 YE5 is actually two asteroids in orbit, not a single asteroid, but …

[ad_1] The company plans to use 3D printing to turn asteroids into autonomous vehicles by 2030. Washington: NASA recently announced that it would give funds to a California-based 3D printing company to …

[ad_1] NASA recently announced that it would give funds to a California-based 3D printing company to find ways to turn asteroids into giant, self-contained space ships capable of flying to outposts in …

[ad_1] It is very tempting to imagine that the asteroids that are undesirable in our solar system have been there from the beginning, they are orbiting the sun for many ages during …

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[ad_1] According to new research, at least 85% of the 200,000 asteroids in the internal asteroid belt – the main source of terrestrial meteorites – come from five or six major primordial …

[ad_1] Mankind does not need to fear gigantic asteroids large enough to erase us from the surface of the Earth, because they are easy to track because of their enormous size. But …