China to Launch Tianwen-2 Mission to Capture Pieces of Near-Earth Asteroid

The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

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NASA’s Webb Telescope Spots Auroras on Neptune for the First Time

The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier telescopes or spacecraft.

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Video Shows Mars and Deimos Close Up During ESA’s Hera Flyby

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

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Will That Asteroid Strike Earth? Risk Level Rises to Highest Ever Recorded.

The threat from space rock 2024 YR4 has surpassed that of Apophis, an asteroid feared by scientists 20 years ago. The danger remains low, but experts are estimating the damage that could be done.

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 Could Strike Earth, Researchers Say, But the Odds are Small

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December 2032.

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An Asteroid’s Destruction May Have Given Mars Rings, Then Moons

Scientists simulated a situation that may offer an improved explanation for how the Red Planet ended up with small Phobos and tiny Deimos.

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