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As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

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Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

NASA has defined asteroids as small, rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets, but they are much smaller in size. Most of them are found in the main asteroid belt, a region between the orbits of ...

As you watch the night sky, streaks of light often flash for a moment, then disappear. These brilliant flashes—called ...

Usually, what springs to mind when you think of the world’s most expensive substances are gold, silver, and platinum. However, according to a study conducted by the BBC’s ‘Science Focus,’ the reality ...