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Researchers just found more than 1,000 new solar system objects hiding in plain sightArtificial intelligence trained by asteroid-hunting citizen scientists helped identify more than 1,000 never-before-seen solar system objects from old Hubble images spanning two decades.
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An extra moon may be orbiting Earth — and scientists think they know exactly where it came fromThe near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, which orbits alongside our planet as a 'minimoon,' may have originated from Giordano Bruno crater on the far side of the moon, new research suggests.
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2,000-foot-wide 'potentially hazardous' asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth — and you can see it with a telescopeThe 2,000-foot-wide asteroid 2013 NK4 just made its closest approach to Earth in recorded history, sailing by at about eight lunar distances. You can still see the massive rock with a backyard telescope.
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Car-size asteroid discovered 2 days ago flies by Earth at 1/30th the distance of the moonA newly discovered asteroid got within 12,000 miles of Earth on a harrowing, ultra-close approach today. The space rock won't return for 70 years.
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Boulders flung from NASA's asteroid-smashing DART mission could crash into Mars, study predictsDozens of boulders dislodged by NASA's asteroid-smashing DART test could hit Mars in the future, new research suggests.
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'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life and minerals unseen on Earth, scientists reveal in 1st comprehensive analysisScientists shared the first comprehensive science results from NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, revealing the out-of-this-world makeup of asteroid Bennu.
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Zero chance of potential city-killer asteroid 'Apophis' smashing into Earth in 2029, new study confirmsComputer simulations reveal that the close flyby of Apophis, the "God of Chaos" asteroid, in 2029 still poses no risk to Earth, even when a worrying, previously unrecognized factor is taken into account.
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NASA's asteroid-slamming DART mission completely changed the shape of its targetNASA's DART spacecraft seems to have completely reshaped asteroid Dimorphos after violently crashing into it in Sept. 2022
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Earth has extra moons, and they may hold the secrets of our solar system's pastEarth's closest cosmic companions, known as 'minimoons' or 'quasi-moons', could hold the secrets to the history of our early solar system.
