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The mission takes advantage of a unique alignment between Earth and the Trojan asteroids, groups of objects leading and trailing Jupiter in its orbit around the sun. The trajectory will take the Lucy spacecraft near eight asteroids from 2025 until 2033, ...

On Friday, Asteroid 2021 SM3, which has a diameter of up to 525 feet -- bigger than the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt -- was projected to zoom by around 3.5 million miles away from Earth, USA Today first reported based off CNEOS data.

(NEXSTAR) – A Canadian woman is thankful to be alive after a meteorite ripped through the roof of her home last week, barely missing her. (Ruth Hamilton). “It all happened really quickly,” Ruth Hamilton, of Golden, British Columbia told Nexstar.

NASA plans to launch the James Webb Space Telescope in December. With greater sensitivity and longer wavelength coverage, Webb will compliment and extend the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope which has been in orbit since 1990.

A group of researchers wants to save Earth from a potential asteroid apocalypse using a new planetary defense method they call PI — short for "Pulverize It." The plan — detailed in a lengthy technical paper on the University of California, ...

Scientists discovered a Jupiter-like planet, which has a similar orbit as the Gas Giant, revolving around a dead star — or white dwarf — near the center of the Milky Way, according to a news release.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's newest asteroid probe, named Lucy, blasted off from Kennedy Space Center here in Florida to embark on a 12-year mission to study two different clusters of asteroids around Jupiter known as Trojans.

(CNN) The first NASA mission to fly by a total of eight ancient asteroids is ready for launch. Weather conditions are greater than 90% favorable on the morning of October 16, when the Lucy mission is set to leave Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at ...

ANU astrophysicist and cosmologist Dr Brad Tucker says mysterious radio signals coming from the centre of the Milky Way could be a new object. “A lot of astronomers in Australia are using what's called ASKAPs, so this is a very new, sensitive radio ...

The Comets scored early and often and defeated Tatanka, 55-0. Rapid City Christian improved to 3-5 on the year. But that won't be ...

NASA is no stranger to the solar system's most mammoth planet, the gas giant Jupiter. Robotic explorers, like Juno, have gazed upon its Great Red Spot and analyzed its atmosphere. But in its planetary neighbourhood lies a collection of ancient rocks known ...

LONDON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - A microscope Charles Darwin gave his son Leonard and which has remained in the family for nearly 200 years is headed for auction in December, and is expected to fetch up to $480,000. The instrument was designed by Charles ...

The one-of-a-kind heirloom has been found, and is expected to fetch up to £350,000 in a live auction. By Kathryn Flett 16 October 2021 • 5:00am. 'It's not just the history of the microscope… it really is human history,' says James Hyslop, ...

About an hour after launch Saturday, NASA's Lucy spacecraft will start the delicate process of opening its circular, fan-shaped solar arrays — the largest ever on a deep space probe — to power the asteroid explorer's 12-year journey into the outer solar ...

NASA is ready to launch a $981 million mission to the distant reaches of the solar system Saturday, kicking off a 12-year expedition to visit a group of unexplored asteroids that may offer clues to help scientists decipher how the planets formed more than ...

"It's very exciting," PSU Electrical and Computer Engineering Adjunct Faculty Member Andrew Greenberg said. "The idea is this is sort of training wheels. It's a test satellite to see if our designs will work in space.".

Catch the premiere of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory documentary “Triumph at Saturn” on Oct. 15 at 3 p.m. PDT online at JPL's YouTube and Facebook channels. The latest in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory series of historical documentaries, “Triumph at ...

When Ruth Hamilton awoke on October 3 to the sound of her dog barking, followed shortly by an explosion and drywall debris falling on her face, she was afraid there was an intruder in the house, she tells Claire Palmer at the Pipestone Flyer.

An adviser for NASA wrote an open letter on Tuesday on why they decided to quit after a request to change the name of the James Webb Space Telescope was denied by the agency. Lucianne Walkowicz, who is nonbinary, wrote that they were resigning “because ...

The solar system is populated with asteroids as different as our planets. The main asteroid belt, located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, is home to many different types of space rocks. But a new mission called Lucy will soon launch to study a ...