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However, Ballouz added that astronomers have long seen that asteroids that pass close to planets like Earth often lack weathered surfaces. The exact physical mechanism that removes the evidence of ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — Stem cells grown in microgravity aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have unique qualities that could one day help accelerate new biotherapies and heal complex disease ...

The vast majority of these NEOs are asteroids—most of which are small—although there are a handful of comets included in this category as well. Stock image: Artist's illustration of an ...

There’s been a lot of interest around developing technologies for mining rare-earth metals from asteroids as they pass on by. But a new study published in the International Journal of ...

Two of them were only discovered earlier this month. A quartet of particularly hefty asteroids, including two that were discovered earlier this month and another that is as tall as a skyscraper ...

Don't look up! No seriously, don't bother. None of the five asteroids are big enough to see from Earth. © NASA A quintet of asteroids will all come close to Earth on ...

Four large asteroids will make their closest approaches to Earth on Thursday, each passing by the planet within a 24-hour time frame. Two had already zipped past early in the morning, according to ...

Giant so-called "killer asteroids" are set to pass Earth within a 12-hour window after being first spotted earlier this month. The space rocks, two of which are the size of aeroplanes, are large ...

Four large asteroids are passing by Earth today, NASA has said, but despite their huge size they are not expected to pose any danger to our planet. The "potentially hazardous" asteroids ...

In the coming decades, at least two of the asteroids are expected to make an even closer flyby of Earth. 2024 TR6 will return on Aug. 5, 2039, coming within just 1.2 million miles of our planet ...

Scientists know that while some of these meteorites come from the Moon and Mars, the majority come from asteroids. But two separate studies published in Nature today have gone a step further.