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Airplane-sized asteroid 2026 BJ8 speeds toward Earth at 50,000 kmph, NASA confirms safe flyby

NASA is tracking a near-Earth asteroid called 2026 BJ8 that is moving through space at around 50,000 kmph and is roughly the size of an airplane. Although its speed and relatively close approach to ...
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Airplane sized asteroid 2026 BJ8 races toward Earth at 50,000 kmph, NASA says flyby is safe

An airplane-sized asteroid labeled 2026 BJ8 is racing toward Earth at roughly 50,000 kilometers per hour, but NASA’s tracking shows it will pass at a safe distance. Rather than a disaster warning, the ...

Can a nonprofit help protect Earth from dangerous asteroids? How the B612 Foundation has taken on the challenge

For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the ...
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Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt completes ground segment critical design review

Marking a key milestone in the mission’s transition from final design to implementation and operational readiness ...

QuickCheck: Is Nasa thinking of nuking an asteroid that may be headed for the Moon?

Nasa is looking at several options, like crashing a probe into the asteroid to nudge it off course, but that plan was later deemed "impractical" because of constraints such as not knowing the object's ...
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Is the Moon Habitable? Elon Musk Reveals Plan to Build a 'Self-Growing' Lunar City

According to Musk, building a 'self-growing city' on the Moon can be achieved in less than 10 years, whereas on Mars, it ...
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“A Mission That Pushes the Boundaries of Commercial Space”: Autonomous ‘SpacePilot’ Will Pilot Spacecraft to Asteroid Apophis

Commercial deep-space mission operator ExLabs has selected SpacePilot autonomous software for the 2029 Apophis asteroid ...