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Chinese 'robot dog' that moves like a cat could revolutionize space exploration and asteroid mining
Using AI training, researchers designed a "robot dog" that moves like a cat, and has no trouble navigating low-gravity ...
NASA Monitoring Bus-Sized Asteroid Heading Earthward
The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...
Christmas Eve asteroid the size of a 10-floor building makes ‘close approach’ to Earth tonight
While this is considered a “close approach” by interstellar standards — NASA defines near-Earth objects (NEOs) as those that ...
The most daring space missions coming in 2025 – from China’s asteroid retrieval to first private ‘luxury’ space station
THIS year looks set to be another blockbuster year for daring space missions, from China’s asteroid retrieval to the first-ever private space station. Here are some of the biggest space ...
A massive 94-foot airplane-sized asteroid is coming very close to Earth today, NASA confirms
NASA has announced that asteroid 2024 YL7, a 94-foot-wide space rock, will pass Earth on 4 January. Travelling at an incredible speed of 16,266 mph, this asteroid’s close approach highlights the ...
A strange asteroid-comet could be key to understanding the birth of the solar system
A strange asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune could reveal key details about the birth of our solar ...
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Asteroid-comet chimera Chiron has an unusual ice mix, James Webb Space Telescope finds
An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the ...
What to look forward to in space in 2025
This year, we were treated with a total solar eclipse, fantastic displays of the northern lights, spectacular meteor showers ...
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How do spacecraft avoid collisions in the asteroid belt?
The main belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is so sparsely populated that spacecraft pass through as though ...
Opinion | Why India Should Get Behind Space Mining
It is clear that as demand for minerals surges due to green energy transition, asteroids could offer a virtually limitless ...
Asteroid AB 2025 Set for a Thrilling Close Encounter, Passing Just 1.2 Million Miles from Earth
Asteroid AB 2025 is set to make an astonishingly close approach to Earth, passing at a distance of just 1.2 million miles.