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Space mining company AstroForge identifies asteroid target for Odin launch next month
"Odin's role is to gather critical imagery of the target asteroid, preparing the way for our next mission, Vestri, which will aim to land on the asteroid and begin extraction." ...
Fox News6d
Newly discovered asteroid turns out to be Tesla Roadster launched into space
The roadster was expected to go into elliptical orbit around the sun, going a little beyond Mars and back toward Earth, but it apparently exceeded the orbit of Mars and kept going to the asteroid ...
Newsweek4d
NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth at 30,000 Mph
An asteroid the size of a school bus is set to zoom by the Earth on Tuesday, traveling several times faster than a speeding bullet. The asteroid, named 2025 BS4, is said by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
New York Post6d
Astronomers announce discovery of new asteroid — only to learn it’s a Tesla sports car hurling through space
Harvard University-affiliated astronomers announced the discovery of a new asteroid zooming precariously close to Earth — only to learn it was actually a Tesla sports car launched by Elon Musk ...
USA Today6d
Space object or sports car? How a Tesla Roadster was briefly mistaken for an asteroid
What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos. Yep, you read that right. The infinite vastness of outer ...
Hindustan Times3d
Noida boy, 14, picked by NASA to name asteroid he ‘discovered’
Daksh Malik, a class 9 student of the Shiv Nadar School in UP's Noida, discovered an asteroid under under the ‘International Asteroid Discovery Project’. Daksh Malik, a Class 9 student of ...
moneycontrol.com4d
A 14-year-old Indian boy from Noida discovers a new asteroid; here's how NASA reacts
A 14-year-old from Noida is making astronomical strides. Daksh Malik, a Class 9 student at Shiv Nadar School, has discovered an asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
CNN3d
Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say
Astronomers first spotted the asteroid on August 7 using the South Africa-based observatory of the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS. Despite predictions that the ...
Entertainment Weekly3d
The destructive real-life meteor strike that inspired 9-1-1: Lone Star's finale asteroid disaster
Patrick Gomez is an Executive Editor at Entertainment Weekly. Formerly at People magazine and The A.V. Club, the Critics Choice and Television Critics Association member has appeared on 'Today ...
The Independent3d
Newly discovered ‘asteroid’ near Earth turns out to be Elon Musk’s car
Earlier this month, an amateur astronomer discovered what appeared to be the “asteroid”, designated 2018 CN41, that appeared to be passing very close to Earth. When it came within less than ...
The Prototype: How The Federal Research Freeze Impacts Scientists And Startups
Plus: Bringing astronauts back from the ISS, fixing hearts with space-grown cells, why your kids need to touch grass and more ...
The Cool Down on MSN7h
Mining company places $400 million order to transform its enormous fleet: 'We will need to swap out hundreds of pieces'
An Australian mining company made headlines when it placed a $400 million order for over 100 new all-electric mining ...