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A 13-year-old student from London, Ontario, has won one of the highest awards at the Canada-Wide Science Fair after creating ...
Space is vast, mysterious, and full of surprises — but few celestial objects capture our imagination quite like asteroids. These rocky remnants from the early solar system have been drifting through ...
Five named asteroids are set to pass Earth this June, with the first approach by 2021 KN2 on June 3 and the last by 2003 LN6 ...
A possible threat to life on Earth has been identified by researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil: asteroids that share Venus’s orbit but which currently can’t be detected. These ...
The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists’ minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is ...
(CNN) — Asteroids contain large quantities of both precious and common metals, and despite the obvious challenges in reaching them, a few startups say these celestial bodies could offer a sustainable ...
Some asteroids are more dangerous than others, according to a report issued this week in Nature Astronomy by an international team of researchers, led by astrophysicist Auriane Egal of the Montreal ...