NASA's Lucy Mission prepares for launch to Trojan asteroids
September 29, 2021 7:46 ISTSouthwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, is the home institution of the principal investigator for the Lucy mission.
Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, is the home institution of the principal investigator for the Lucy mission.
Nasa has classified asteroid 2016 AJ193 as potentially hazardous as it comes close to Earth on the night of August 21.
At least sixteen students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas have detected eight asteroids under the Khagolshala Asteroid Search Campaign 2021, the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) to the government told PTI on Wednesday.
Asteroid Day is observed on June 30 to raise awareness about asteroid’s hazardous effect and measures to save Earth from threat.
With rubble from an asteroid tucked inside, a NASA spacecraft fired its engines and began the long journey back to Earth on Monday, leaving the ancient space rock in its rearview mirror.
NASA has selected Elon Musk-run SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency's Psyche mission that would journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid, also named Psyche, which orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.
Three asteroids are expected to shoot past the earth today, said NASA Centre for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) tracks all asteroids. One of the asteroids monitored by the American space agency arm is the 2019 RG2, which will hurtle past at around 310,000 miles (500,000 kilometers) — closer than any potential asteroid near-miss for the next three months.
A possible threat is approaching the Earth today. According to NASA, an asteroid named '2019 NJ2' is expected to come very close to the earth. If reports are to be believed, the asteroid is bigger than Italy's Leaning Tower of Pisa. Read further to know more.
London, April 23 : Internet search engine giant Google and a former Microsoft software architect are backing a team of scientists to unveil plans to begin mining asteroids "to guarantee the human race's prosperity".According to
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