NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to astronomer Sarah Greenstreet about her team's new discovery of the fastest-spinning large asteroid known to man.
Good things don’t come in threes. Venus is concealing at least three city-killer asteroids that could strike Earth in weeks without warning, potentially wreaking havoc upon our planet before we can ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured this image showing the nightside surface of Venus. A family of asteroids share the planet's orbit, and two new studies suggest that one day the space rocks could ...
Because their orbits are unstable, a possibility exists that the asteroids could break off from their current trajectory and one day head on a collision course for Earth. The Venusian space rocks are ...
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What are asteroids made of?
When we look up at the night sky, we tend to see asteroids as simple, wandering rocks—the leftover debris from […] ...
The metaphor writes itself. A cosmic breakup ends with rocks being flung at the goddess of love. The former unity was between two asteroids, 2021 PH – the fastest in the solar system – and the ...
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