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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 ...
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Smallest main-belt asteroids ever detected found hiding in JWST data
With the James Webb Space Telescope and updated processing techniques, researchers have detected asteroids just tens of ...
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NASA’s James Webb Telescope Reveals Smallest Asteroids Yet Found in Main Asteroid Belt
NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope includes asteroids on its list of objects studied and secrets revealed.
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Webb reveals the smallest asteroids yet found
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope now includes asteroids on its list of objects studied and secrets revealed. A team led by ...
NASA’s James Webb Telescope’s big discovery! Uncovers hidden asteroids to bolster efforts to protect Earth from potential impacts
This research lays the groundwork for NASA’s upcoming Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission, the first space telescope ...
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Webb Unveils Tiniest Asteroids in Main Belt
Illustration of the main asteroid belt, orbiting the Sun between Mars and JupiterNASA NASA's powerful James Webb Space ...
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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 ...
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Asteroid 'on collision course' with Earth lights up sky as it breaks up over Russia’s Siberia
A small asteroid lit up the sky over Russia’s Siberian republic of Yakutia as it entered Earth's atmosphere.View on euronews ...
An ‘oddball’ asteroid-comet hybrid dates back 4.6 billion years
The JWST’s spectra data also showed the huge amount of various ices with different volatilities and how they are made. Chiron ...
Lab work digs into gullies seen on giant asteroid Vesta by NASA's Dawn
Pocked with craters, the surfaces of many celestial bodies in our solar system provide clear evidence of a 4.6-billion-year ...