NASA's Lucy mission flyby asteroid Dinkinesh (aka 1999 VD57). Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced, Edited, and Narrated by: David Ladd (AIMM) Animations by: Walt Feimer (KBRWyle) and Jon ...
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This asteroid is heading for Earth in 2029

In 2029, a massive asteroid will pass closer to Earth than many satellites orbiting the planet. While scientists say an impact is not expected, the proximity is unprecedented in modern astronomy. The ...
An Australian startup wants to recycle a geostationary satellite to get an up-close look at the "doomsday" asteroid Apophis. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
Comet C/2025 K1 ATLAS, a relatively new visitor from the outer solar system, has broken apart after swooping close to the Sun ...
The breakup was caused by the extreme conditions near the Sun; during its latest approach, C/2025 K1 flew as close as 0.334 ...
Ahead of the tentative February 6 launch, four astronauts—NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA ...
Installation of an experiment testing asteroid material at CERN's HiRadMat facility. (Photo: Karl-Georg Schlesinger) Millions of asteroids orbit ...
3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar visitor ever to visit the solar system having been formed around a distant star. Tune in ...
3I/ATLAS, the third-ever interstellar object to traverse through the solar system after 1I/Oumuamua (2017) and 2I/Borisov ...
When NASA launched the Pioneer probes, they were met with an intriguing mystery. At around 20 astronomical units, both spacecraft began accelerating towards the Sun.
Comet 3I Atlas is the third confirmed object ever observed entering the Solar System from interstellar space, News.Az reports ...
Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star located in the constellation Orion, has emerged as one of the night sky's most watched ...