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NASA issued alert as Asteroid 2023 HH3 passes close to the earth today

NASA issued the alert warning as an Asteroid is about to pass close to the Earth today, a bus size asteroid is passing at a speed of 48052 Km/h

'Planet killer' asteroid to soon cross Earth's orbit, but poses no threat

An asteroid is classified as a Near-Earth Object (NEO) if its distance from our planet is less than 1.3 times the distance between Earth and the Sun

Smashing success: Nasa's 'save-the-world test' strike results in big nudge

A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test. The space agency attempted the first test of its kind two weeks ago to see if in the future a killer rock could be nudged out of Earth's way. The Dart spacecraft carved a crater into the asteroid Dimorphos on Sept 26, hurling debris out into space and creating a cometlike trail of dust and rubble stretching several thousand miles (km). It took days of telescope observations to determine how much the impact altered the path of the 525-foot (160-metre) asteroid around its companion, a much bigger space rock. Before the impact, the moonlet took 11 hours and 55 minutes to circle its parent asteroid. Scientists had hoped to shave off 10 minutes but NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the impact altered the asteroid's orbit by about 32 minutes. This mission shows that NASA is trying to be ready for whateve

NASA's James Webb, Hubble capture DART impact after asteroid strike

For the first time, Webb and Hubble have simultaneously captured imagery from the same target in the cosmos

Nasa's deflect-asteriod offensive to avoid future catastrophes on Earth

Dimorphos doesn't pose any threat to Earth, but the DART mission is the first physical test in space of one of NASA's primary tenets: planetary defense.

NASA spacecraft to collide with asteroid on Sept 26; here's what we know

The DART mission first launched nearly a year ago on November 24, 2021, to test the use of a kinetic impactor, in order to change the orbit of an asteroid, in the first of its kind attempt

NASA's 1st mission to distant asteroids prepares for launch on Oct 16

NASA is preparing for the launch of its Lucy mission -- the first to explore distant asteroids and origins of the solar system on Saturday.

China's Chang'e-5 completes first orbital correction en route to Earth

The CNSA said all systems on the orbiter-returner combination that carries lunar samples are currently in good condition

The chase for 16 Psyche, asteroid that is costlier than Earth

It's estimated 16 Psyche contains 24 million-trillion tonnes of metal - that's 24 followed by 15 zeros. This has a notional value of something like $10,000 followed by 15 zeros

Fake asteroid? NASA expert identifies mystery object as old rocket

Chodas speculates that asteroid 2020 SO, as it is formally known, is actually the Centaur upper rocket stage that successfully propelled NASA''s Surveyor 2 lander to the moon in 1966 before it was dis

World Coronavirus Dispatch: Students across globe returning to classrooms

Boris Johnson earmarks £500 mn for mass rapid testing, Sanofi starts trials of vaccine, Steroids could reduce deaths by a third, and other pandemic-related news across the globe

Collision between asteroids sparked Earth's biodiversity, reveals study

The researchers reasoned that the space dust was enriched with helium when bombarded by the solar wind on its way to the Earth

Asteroids will help understand how life began on Earth: Study

Asteroids play the role of 'time capsule', helping us decode what molecules originally existed on the solar system