asteroids
Comet or asteroid? Scientists ID interstellar visitor
Telescopes first spotted the mysterious red-tinged object last October as it zipped through the inner solar system.
Japan space explorer makes it to asteroid for collecting samples
The unmanned Hayabusa2 spacecraft reached its base of operations about 20KM from the asteroid and some 280 million KM from Earth.
Dino-killing asteroid caused Earth to heat up for 1,00,000 years
The monumental event is a rare case where Earth's systems were perturbed at a rate greater than what's occurring now from human activity.
Are asteroids humanity's 'greatest challenge'?
Astrophysicists monitoring the risk classify objects into sizes ranging from a few millimetres to behemoths 10 kilometres.
NASA probe begins search for elusive Earth-Trojan asteroid
The MapCam camera will take 135 survey images that will be processed and examined by the mission's imaging scientists.
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