Most Near-Earth Objects Could Be ‘Dark Comets,’ Neither Comets Nor Asteroids

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Artist's impression of a dark comet in space

Scientists built a 3-ton camera with a 5-foot-wide lens to discover hazardous asteroids that NASA can't see

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Travis Lange, the deputy project manager of the LSST, shone a flashlight into the LSST Camera, which has a 5-foot-wide lens.

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The Asteroid Dimorphos Looks Totally Different After NASA's DART Mission Walloped It

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In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a tiny asteroid to nudge it off its orbital course.

NASA released the first close-up photos of the largest asteroid sample ever collected

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The sample collector with a pile of asteroid material resting on it.

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NASA is visiting an asteroid valued at more than the entire world economy's worth, but that's not why it's going there

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An artistic concept of what Psyche might look like.

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Space-Scanning Algorithm Spots 'Potentially Hazardous' 600-Foot Asteroid

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An asteroid-hunting algorithm set to be implemented in the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 10-year survey spotted its first potentially hazardous asteroid, proving the algorithm’s capabilities in advance of the observatory’s opening.

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Hubble Spots ‘Boulder Cloud’ From NASA’s Asteroid-Smashing DART Mission

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Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have detected nearly 40 boulders near Dimorphos—the target of NASA’s wildly successful DART experiment to deflect a non-threatening asteroid. This isn’t exactly positive news, since it suggests that hitting a bona fide hazardous asteroid might create a cluster of possibly…

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Adam Driver asked NASA how it plans to save Earth from world-ending asteroids

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Adam Driver arrives at the UK Premiere of the film 'House of Gucci' at Leicester Square in London, Britain.

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