Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of two colliding asteroids. Using Gaia data and AI models, researchers uncovered why some asteroids tumble while ...
The way an asteroid spins -- either smoothly on its axis or in a chaotic tumble -- depends on how many times it has been hit by other objects in space. At the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki, ...
Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be dependent on how frequently it has experienced collisions. The findings, ...
On April 13, 2029, asteroid 99942 Apophis will pass just 19,800 miles from Earth—closer than many satellites—offering an unprecedented research opportunity. NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft will arrive ...
When it comes to saving Earth from a potential doomsday rock, knowing where to hit it and how it spins could make all the difference. Two new studies presented last month at the Europlanet Science ...
In a research article recently published in Space: Science & Technology, researchers from Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated the distribution of scattered waves and signal power alterations ...