Billion of Asteroids: The "Living Fossils" of Solar System Formation and Evolution ...
With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...
On the remote Yamal and Gydan peninsulas of western Siberia, the landscape is marked by massive craters that look as though ...
Buried deep in Greenland's ice sheet lies a puzzling chemical signature that has sparked intense scientific debate. A sharp ...
Having scooped up some asteroid material from 162173 Ryugu in 2018, which was returned to Earth in 2020, Hayabusa2 was sent ...
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Asteroid KY26 smaller and faster than believed, posing new challenge for Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 mission is currently on an extended journey that will take it to KY26 ...
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Cosmic fidget spinner: Hayabusa2 to land on smallest asteroid ever with 5-minute days
A stronomers have found that asteroid 1998 KY26, the target of Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft in 2031, is much smaller and faster-spinning than earlier estimates. The discovery poses new challenges for ...
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Can a spacecraft land on a teeny tiny asteroid? Japan's Hayabusa2 will certainly try
Hayabusa2's new target, asteroid 1998 KY26, is just 36 feet (11 meters) across, which will make landing on it challenging.
In 2010, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Hayabusa probe became the first spacecraft to ...
Observations from global observatories, including the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), ...
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, expects its spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid in July 2031. The ...
Astronomers have used observatories around the world, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO ...
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